Quotes About History

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

Make history or be a part of it.

I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans.

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.