Quotes About History

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Paul Konerko is one of the greatest players in White Sox history, not only for his strength and performance on the field, but also for his heart and leadership off the field.

Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.