Quotes About Reflection

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.