Bored of all that 'history repeats itself' shebang? Looking for some new ideas to impress your friends when talking about historical events, of which we seem to have more than enough these days? Well then, you've come to the exact right place at the exact right moment, for this is our selection of the best history quotes ever!
Now, most of these are famous people's quotes, but who said that it isn't cool to read what people who made history had to say about it? Others are just plain famous quotes - ones whose author might be a bit more obscure, but their words nevertheless made enough of an impact to stick around with us for literally ages to be met in school books and on coffee mugs. Of course, these quotes about history will also have some new info to share with you, although it is funny when you think that we ourselves are living in history, yet there's always something new about it. Well, anyhoo, you’d better check out these history quotes for yourself before we hammer some assumptions into you.
So, scroll on down below and check the undeniably powerful quotes out! Once you've skimmed through all of them, give the best quotes your vote, and share this inspiring but also slightly intimidating article with your friends!
#61
“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.” ― Jim Butcher
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#62
“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.” ― Jodi Picoult
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#63
“More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.” – Joe Murray
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#64
“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.” – Eric Hoffer
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#65
“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.” — Will Durant
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#66
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” — Aristotle
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#67
"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort." - Mason Cooley
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#68
“The truth that all historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.” - Carl Becker
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#69
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” ― Virginia Woolf
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#70
“That 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
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#71
“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.” ― Bertolt Brecht
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#72
“What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.” ― Peter Singer
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#73
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.” ― Victor Hugo
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#74
“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.” ― Jennifer Donnelly
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#75
“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.” ― Robin Hobb
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#76
“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?” ― Thomas Sowell
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#77
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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#78
“History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.” – Charles Angoff
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#79
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” – Lord Acton
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#80
“History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.” – Etienne Gilson
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