“History is a relay of revolutions.” – Saul Alinsky
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” – Konrad Adenauer
“History has a way of repeating itself, but only if you don’t learn from it.” – Unknown
“The purpose of history is to understand ourselves and others better.” – Carl Becker
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“History is more or less bunk.” – Henry Ford
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” – Lord Acton
“The past is prologue.” – William Shakespeare
“History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.” – Lord John Whorfin
“History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.” – Ambrose Bierce
“History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, and the messenger of antiquity.” – Cicero
“The past is the foundation of the future.” – Unknown
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times.” – David McCullough
“History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.” – Laurence Overmire
“History is a resource from which we can draw in times of trouble.” – Unknown
“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” – George Bernard Shaw
“History is like a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“History is not history unless it is the truth.” – Abraham Lincoln
“History books are written by the winners.” – Unknown
“In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“All history is the history of thought.” – R.G. Collingwood
“Every great movement in history is an act of vision.” – Unknown
“History shows that the people who end up changing the world are always nuts, until they’re right.” – Steve Jobs
“History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.” – George R.R. Martin
“The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or eyes.” – Adolf Hitler
“History is the unfolding of God’s plan for the human race.” – John Fiske
“Each time history repeats itself, the price of the lesson gets steeper.” – Unknown
“History is what happens when we’re not looking.” – Anonymous
“The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.” – Jean Bodin
“History is a great teacher, but it rarely finds attentive pupils.” – Unknown
“People make history, but they do not know the history they are making.” – Karl Marx
“History is the science of people, time, and place.” – Unknown
“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.” – Walter Rauschenbusch
“History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
“History is not the story of kings and queens but of ordinary people.” – Unknown
“History teaches everything, even the future.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“The past does not repeat itself, but it echoes.” – John Buchan
“History is simply the version of events we choose to remember.” – Unknown
“History is not merely what happened; it is what happened in the context of what might have happened.” – Hugh Trevor-Roper
“History is what was, not what is.” – Unknown
“In history, we find the lessons for progress.” – Unknown
“History whispers the stories of the unsung.” – Unknown
“History should not be studied for the sake of curiosity, but for the lessons it imparts.” – Livy
“History is a vast collection of lies agreed upon.” – Bernard Ingham
“The great thing about history is that it’s like a mirror; it reflects who we are and how far we’ve come.” – Unknown
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” – Winston Churchill
“History has a way of making heroes out of those who persevere.” – Unknown
“History may not repeat itself, but it sure does echo.” – Unknown
“History is the root of all that we are.” – Unknown
“History belongs to those who dare to make it.” – Unknown