History Quotes
Quotes about history and the lessons of yesterday. This hand-picked collection brings together 22 of the finest history quotes ever written — from Charles Dickens, Albert Camus, Cicero and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
To understand a man, one must know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
History is written by the victors — read it with open eyes.
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.
History is a vast early warning system.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
A nation that forgets its history has no future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.