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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