Quotes About Reflection

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

History is history. What is done is done.

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

History is a great dust heap.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

History passes the final judgment

I wonder why we hate the past so.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.