Exploring the Wisdom of the Past – Historical Quotes

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. – Friedrich Hegel

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. – John F. Kennedy

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana

History is written by the victors, but it’s often rewritten by the survivors. – Mitch Albom

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. – Winston Churchill

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. – Abba Eban

History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. – Edmund Burke

The past cannot be changed, but the future is still in your power. – Unknown

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Exploring the Wisdom of the Past – Historical Quotes part 2

The history of freedom is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. – Wendell Phillips

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. – James Bryce

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner

History is an agitated clock, ticking away painfully towards disaster. – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

History is a picture of past events, the image of the past, like a diary. But it lacks the immediacy of television, the feeling of being there. – David Attenborough

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. – H.G. Wells

History is a vast early warning system. – Norman Cousins

We are the products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. – Rick Warren

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. – Hendrik Willem van Loon

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is a dream, remembered. The future is a dream, sought. – Isaac Marion

The history of the world is the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. – Karl Popper

History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Voltaire

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

History is made by those who break the rules. – Unknown

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page. – Lord Byron

The world is a spiritual vessel which cannot be acted upon. Whoever acts on it will ruin it; whoever holds on to it will lose it. – Lao Tzu

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

Every great historical change has been based on nonconformity. – Emma Goldman

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. – Cicero

Without history, we are nothing more than a blank sheet of paper without a story. – Unknown

The study of history is the beginning of wisdom. – Jean Bodin

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Friedrich Engels

History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. – Ned Rorem

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alex Haley

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. – William Wordsworth

The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know. – Harry S. Truman