History Quotes About the Past & Its Lessons – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

Marc Newson

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

Richard Leakey

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Ken Burns

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

Mike Rounds

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

Lord Acton

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

Sanford I. Weill

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

Camille Paglia

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

Douglas Hurd

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Naguib Mahfouz

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

Luke Ford

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Rosa Luxemburg

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Paul Begala

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

Karl Rove

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Christopher Lasch

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Todd Gitlin

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Joe Baca

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

John Lasseter

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Josh McDowell

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Alfred de Vigny

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Robert Anton Wilson

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Jim Wallis

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Goldwin Smith

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Harold Wilson

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

J. William Fulbright

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

Catherine Helen Spence

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Ken Burns

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Lech Walesa

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

R. Lee Ermey

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

Pope John Paul II

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Pierre Corneille

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Rick Renzi

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

R. Lee Ermey

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Julian Assange

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

Warren Christopher

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

Karl Jaspers

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Martin Heidegger

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

Lawrence G. Lovasik

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Charles Bukowski

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Antonia Fraser