"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain a child always."— Cicero
"Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it."— Edmund Burke
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."— Winston Churchill
"Study the past, if you would define the future."— Confucius
"History is a vast early warning system."— Norman Cousins
"The past is not dead. It's not even past."— William Faukner
"History teaches everything, even the future."— Alphonse de Lamartine
"We learn from history that we never learn anything from history."— Hegel
"The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. "— Mark Twain
"Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it."— N. Scott Momaday
"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
"There are no extraordinary men…just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."— William Halsey
"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."— Winston Churchill
"A country without a memory is a country of madmen."— George Santayana
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."— Thomas Carlyle
"If you would understand anything, observe its beginnings and its development."— Aristotle
"Nothing falsifies history more than logic."— Guizot
"History does not belong to us; we belong to it."— Hans-Georg Gadamer
"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."— Alexis de Tocqueville
"There is no history, only histories."— Karl Popper
"A page of history is worth a volume of logic."— O. W. Holmes
"History is the record of encounters between character and circumstances."— Donald Creighton
"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."— Karl Marx
"I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is."— Maya Angelou
"Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward."— Soren Kiekegaard
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."— Confucius
"Every old man that dies is a library that burns."— Amadou Hampate Ba
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."— Martin Luther King Jr.
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."— Marcus Garvey
"The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are."— Maya Angelou
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."— Karl Marx
"History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."— Malcolm X
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."— Virginia Woolf
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration…"— Carter G. Woodson
"History shows that there are no invincible armies."— Joseph Stalin
"If you think you have it tough, read history books."— Bill Maher
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