History Quotes

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.