History Quotes and Sayings
Study the past if you would define the future.
– Confucius
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
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.
– Demi Lovato
Forget about the history, make the history.
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.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
– Paul Valéry
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
– H.G. Wells
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
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians.
– Edward Gibbon
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
— Alexander Pope
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
For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
– Christopher Pike
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
– Robert Penn Warren
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte