History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Moshe Katsav

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Jalal Talabani

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Newt Gingrich

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Penelope Lively

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

Helen Dunmore

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Ric Keller

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

Mickey Spillane

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

Jim Barksdale

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Paul Gillmor

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Todd Gitlin

You can never plan the future by the past.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

James Lovelock

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

Ruben Hinojosa

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Fred Saberhagen

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Hilaire Belloc

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

Vincent Bugliosi

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

M. H. Abrams

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

Herb Ritts

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

Kenneth Tynan

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Pat Robertson

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

John Thorn

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Carter G. Woodson

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

Ron Chernow

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

Samuel P. Huntington

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Ibrahim Babangida

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Camille Paglia

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Brian Ferneyhough

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

Herbert Read

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Roland Joffe

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

William Ralph Inge

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Chuck Palahniuk

History should be written as philosophy.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

Sue Kelly