Quotes about history
The only way to predict the future is to understand the past. – John Naisbitt
History is not just a record of the past, but a guide for the future. – Barack Obama
History teaches us that nothing is certain except change. – Heraclitus
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – George Santayana
The history of the world is the story of men and women who dared to dream and shape their own destiny. – Unknown
History is written by the victors, but its lessons are for all. – Winston Churchill
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner
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
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the study of the mistakes we are doomed to repeat. – Unknown
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen E. Ambrose
History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. – Winston Churchill
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. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy
The march of the human mind has never been linear. It has always been a zigzag course amidst great storms and calm seas. – Vasco da Gama
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton
The greatest lessons in history come not from conquerors, but from peacemakers. – John F. Kennedy
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. – Harold Taylor
History is like a mirror, reflecting ourselves through the ages. – Unknown
History is a ribbon, always unfurling; history is a journey. And as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us. – Barack Obama
History is the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. – Unknown
The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. – Theodore Roosevelt
History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. – Voltaire
The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill
The past and present are a continuous process, linked by the same threads. – Unknown
Great leaders inspire others to do more, dream more, and become more. – Ralph Nader
History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. – Mark Twain
History is the autobiography of a madman. – Alexander Herzen
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. – Paul Johnson
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. – John F. Kennedy
History is not just the past. It shapes the present and future. – Unknown
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the growth of humanity, the realization of freedom, the realization of human equality, the joy of progress, the happiness of acquisition, the glory of conquest. – Thomas Huxley
The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
History is the compass with which we can navigate the future. – Unknown
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – Richard Nixon
The grand sweep of history is made up of individual stories. – Unknown
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. – George Santayana
History is not just a collection of facts, but a series of stories waiting to be told. – Unknown
The history of the world is the result of the collective decisions and actions of individuals. – Unknown
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. – George Santayana
History is not a burden of the past, but a light to the future. – John F. Kennedy
The history of the world is the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle
The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present, the idea that everything is easy, everything is possible, because we are here and in charge. – David McCullough
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. – Edmund Burke
History is not just a lesson in the past, but a guide for the future. – Unknown