Quotes About Reflection

History is a means of access to ourselves.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

No generation can escape history.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

History is the siren song of the soul.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.