Quotes About Reflection

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.