History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Stephen Ambrose

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

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Felix Adler

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

James Ellroy

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Robert Smithson

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

H. G. Wells

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

Gustav Stresemann

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

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

Marcus Garvey

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Herbert Read

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Todd Gitlin

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

John Maynard Keynes

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Bertrand Russell

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Margaret Fuller

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Kevin Kelly

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Malcolm Forbes

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry A. Kissinger

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Hermann Hesse

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Henry A. Kissinger

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Andre Gide

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

Edward Bond

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Leon Kass

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Jean Anouilh

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Edward Bond

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

Len Wein

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

Phyllis Schlafly

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.