Quotes About Reflection

Yesterday is history Tomorrow's a mystery

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

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

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

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

History doesn't have a curfew.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Literature is the history of the soul.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.