History Quotes

  • That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.Upload to Facebook
    That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
    ~ Aldous Huxley
  • History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.Upload to Facebook
    History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.
    ~ John Lennon
  • Learn from your history, but don't live in it.Upload to Facebook
    Learn from your history, but don't live in it.
    ~ Steve Maraboli
  • He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.Upload to Facebook
    He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
    ~ Pittacus Lore
  • History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.Upload to Facebook
    History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
    ~ Mark Twain
  • Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: a government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.
    ~ Henry Steele Commager, On Vietnam, 1966
  • History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises, and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order on it.
    ~ Henry Steele Commager
  • History is organized memory.
    ~ Henry Steele Commager
  • Many -- and maybe even most -- of history's most successful people will never be documented by those responsible for recording history.
    ~ Dr. Mardy Grothe
  • Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
    ~ Julio Cortazar