History Quotes | Sayings on Lessons From the Past - Page 4

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
– Anatole France

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By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
– Dan Brown

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For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
– Christopher Pike

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The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
– Harry S. Truman

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The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth.
– Colum McCann

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The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
– Lemony Snicket

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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
– Terence McKenna

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You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history.
– David McCullough

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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

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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

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
– Mason Cooley

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I just don’t see why the past has to matter.
– Cassandra Clare

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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
– Vladimir Putin

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