History happens twice because people don’t listen at the first time.
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on…
– Voltaire
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
– George Orwell
Patterns repeat themselves in history.
– Rick Riordan
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
– Stephen R. Covey
History is written by the winners.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
– Adolf Hitler
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
– Karl Marx
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
– Victor Hugo
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
– Lord Acton
A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.
– Robert A. Heinlein
On human stupidity: It is one of the most powerful forces that shape history.
– Yuval Noah Harari
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
– George Santayana
History will keep repeating until the lessen is learned..learn well
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
– Harry S Truman
History is written by the victors.
– Winston Churchill
History teaches us that war is not inevitable. Once again, it is for us to choose whether we use war or some other method of settling the ordinary and unavoidable conflicts between groups of men.
– Aldous Huxley
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
– Karl Marx
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians.
– Edward Gibbon
There’s an old saying about those who forget history. I don’t remember it, but it’s good.
– Stephen Colbert
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
– Edmund Burke
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
– Robin Hobb
History is the science of what never happens twice.
– Paul Valery
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
– Winston Churchill
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
– Joss Whedon
Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
– Peter Lamborn Wilson
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
– Aldous Huxley
If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
– Michael Crichton
Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
– David Ben Gurion
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
– Mark Twain
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The history of empires is the history of human misery.
– Edward Gibbon
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
-Adolf Hitler
Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
– Karl Marx
Study the past if you would define the future.
– Confucius
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
– Mahatma Gandhi
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
– Dean Kamen
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
– Rudyard Kipling
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– H.G. Wells
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
– Thomas Carlyle
There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.
– Demi Lovato
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
– Harry S. Truman
So much of history is mystery. We don’t know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
– Amy Tan
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
– Margaret Thatcher
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
– Oscar Wilde
History is only a confused heap of facts.
– Lord Chesterfield
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
– Terence McKenna
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
– Robert Penn Warren
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
– Emilie Autumn
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
– Karl Marx
The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth.
– Colum McCann
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
– Clarence Darrow
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
– Jose Rizal
Those of us who do not learn lessons from history will become assassins for the history that is yet to be recorded.
– Ravish Kumar
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
– Anatole France
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
– Aberjhani
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
– Alexander Pope
History has rewritten itself so many times I’m not really sure how it was to begin with – it’s a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it’s been repainted eight times.
– Jasper Fforde
You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history.
– David McCullough
History has repeated itself many times throughout the ages.
– Billy Sheehan
Forget about the history, make the history.
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
– Dan Brown
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.
– Paul Valéry
The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
– Lemony Snicket
What really happened doesn’t matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.
– Leila Sales
We had the 1st and 2nd world war, but if we gonna have the 3rd then God never gave wisdom to humans.
– Sipho P Nkosi
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
– Mason Cooley
For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
– Christopher Pike
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
– Vladimir Putin
I just don’t see why the past has to matter.
– Cassandra Clare