Famous Quotations About History (12 Quotes)
1. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
2. History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.
- Unknown
3. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston churchill
4. If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is a part of tree.
- Michael Crichton
5. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
6. History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
- Fustel de Coulange
7. History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
- Malcolm X
8. The men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
- Aldous Huxley
9. History is for human self-knowledge... the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus man is.
- R.G. Collingwoon
10. Writing history is a perpetual exercise in judgement.
- Cushing Strout
11. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou
12. History is but a confused heap of facts.
- Lord Chesterfield
