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History Quotations
The
disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not
know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage,
from which alone men see the town in which they live or the
age in which they are living.
G. K. Chesterson
We
need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the
past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us
and make a future possible.
Alan
Bloom
A
good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
Jon Bishop
To
be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain
always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless
it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records
of history?
Cicero
The
history of the world is none other than progress of the consciousness
of freedom.
George Hegel
The
time for extracting a lesson from history is ever at hand
for those who are wise.
Desmosthenes
History
is a mighty drama, enacted upon the theatre of time, with
suns for lamps, and eternity for a background.
Thomas Carlyle
To
have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece
of history.
Alfred Kazin
History
is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes.
It teaches by analogy, not by maxims.
Henry Kissinger
History
is philosophy learned from examples.
Dionysius
Every
great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on what
subject he may.— He carries with Imn. for thousands of years,
a portion of his times.
Walter Savage Landor
Life
can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
A
historian is a prophet in reverse.
Friedrich von Schlegel
In
spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed
much in the last 2,000 years, and in consequence, we must
still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.
Kenneth Clark
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