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

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

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

History does not belong to us we belong to it.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illuminates reality.

History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’

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

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

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind.

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

Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up.

To study history is to study humanity, and in doing so, we define our future.

Learning history is easy learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

History, in brief, is analysis, ecclesiastical history is narrative.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

The true history of mankind will be written only when Albanians participate in its writing.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books.

For the historian, every fact, every moment, is a seat in the theater of history.

Some histories make men wise, poets witty the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.

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

History should be written as philosophy.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

There is a history in all men’s lives.

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

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

My point is, history is about the totality of human experience, the good, the bad, the sordid, the magnificent, the inspiring, and the terrifying.

All history is contemporary history.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

Let us not forget that history records the deeds of the conqueror and passes over in silence the submission of the conquered.

Real history is far too complex and chaotic to ever repeat itself exactly.

You can’t change the future if you don’t understand the past.

There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform the duty expected of them by their ancestors, or the duty which they owe to the generations which come after them.

Our history is not our destiny.

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The historian’s task is to understand the past the human task is to understand the present.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

History is the witness of the times.

Every era leaves its own history.

History unfolds like an endless book.

Understanding our past enlightens the future.

History is made by those who break rules.

Legends are etched into the sands of time.

The past is but a prelude to our story.

Time shapes history into story.

Each day writes its own history.

We are the makers of history.

History is a guide to navigation in time.

The future sprouts from the seeds of history.

Every tick of the clock is historical.

Witness history and shape tomorrow.

Our lives are today’s footprints in history.

History breathes life into the future.

Memories create the narratives of history.

Every conquered mountain rewrites history.

Empires rise and fall, history marches on.

Fables fade but history’s ink is permanent.

History mankind’s longest-running story.

Time’s imprint is the essence of history.

Explore history to foresee the future.

History is the key to what’s next.

Heroes are history’s most cherished relics.

Our ancestors’ whispers shape our history.

Chronicles of time craft history’s tale.

The canvas of history never dries.

Decisions today, history’s echoes tomorrow.

History, like rivers, changes landscapes.

Change is the heartbeat of history.

A nation’s history is its heartbeat.

Warriors’ tales become history’s spine.

History’s echoes resonate through ages.

History is humanity’s shared diary.

History teaches, inspires, and warns.

History’s lens magnifies our present.

The architecture of history is built by time.

Every revolution pens a new history.

Lore becomes history history, legend.

Past deeds etch the paths of history.

History’s symphony plays an eternal score.

Moments pass history remains immortal.

Milestones in time mark history’s path.

History is the sum of human endeavor.

History’s tapestry is woven with time.

Past trials carve tomorrow’s history.

Echoes of history are lessons for today.

Life’s dance choreographs history’s steps.

History records the pulse of humanity.

The pen of history never rests.

History’s shadow casts over today.

History’s whisper is tomorrow’s voice.

The present is history’s newest page.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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

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

There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

History is a vast early warning system.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

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

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Time is my greatest enemy.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.