Quotes About Reflection

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

You have to know the past to understand the present.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

The longest suicide note in history.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

All history is contemporary history.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

History is the autobiography of a madman.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

Error has never approached my spirit.

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