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!
#81
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” – John W. Gardner
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#82
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” – C. Wright Mills
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#83
“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” — Henry James
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#84
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” — Edward Gibbon
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#85
“The History of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.” – Ernest Dimnet
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#86
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.” — Franz Kafka
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#87
“Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.” ― James Burke
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#88
"Whether in commerce, science, or politics — history remembers the artists." - Naval Ravikant
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#89
"On human stupidity: It is one of the most powerful forces that shape history." - Yuval Noah Harari
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#90
"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life." - Norman Cousins
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#91
“No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.” - Johan Huizinga
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#92
“What experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” - Georg Hegel
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#93
“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.” - Edward Hallett Carr
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#94
“Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.” - Franklin P. Jones
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#95
“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.” - Leo Tolstoy
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#96
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.” - Dan Brown
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#97
“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” ― Stephen Ambrose
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#98
“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.” ― Frank Herbert
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#99
“In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.” – Edmund Burke
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#100
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” — Edward R. Murrow
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