Sayings about History
History repeats itself. ~ Traditional Proverb
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~ African Proverb
Live today for tomorrow it will all be history. ~ Traditional Proverb
History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. ~ Saying
History is herstory, too. ~ Saying
Happy nations have no history. ~ Belgian Proverbs
Every day of your life is a page of your history. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~ Saying
Quotations about History
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ~ Robert Heinlein
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. ~ Willa Cather
A page of history is worth a pound of logic. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever. ~ Author Unknown
The men who make history have not time to write it. ~ Klemens Von Metternich
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. ~ Gustave Flaubert
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ~ Ernest Dimnet
History is the devil’s scripture. ~ Lord Byron
History is one of the most remarkable things in our lives. The mere fact it occurred makes it remarkable. ~ Author Unknown
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people’s property. ~ Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
History is the distillation of rumor. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Our best history is still poetry. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole past is the procession of the present. ~ Thomas Carlyle
History is more or less bunk. ~ Henry Ford
History is simply the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ~ George Santayana
A land without ruins is a land without memories — a land without memories is a land without history. ~ Abram Joseph Ryan
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present. ~ Hermann Hesse
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ~ Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ~ Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ~ Anatole France
History is but a confused heap of facts. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. ~ Clarence Darrow
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. ~ H.G. Wells
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. ~ Otto Von Bismarck
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H.G. Wells
While we read history we make history. ~ George William Curtis
History is a better guide than good intentions. ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
The history of mankind is his character. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. ~ Friedrich Hegel
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ~ Edward Gibbon
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. ~ William J. Durant
There is a history in all men’s lives. ~ William Shakespeare
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~ William J. Durant
Suggested reading and resources : Lectures on the Philosophy of History : Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Lectures on the Philosophy of History originally given as lectures at the University of Berlin. ~ Preview book