"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain a child always."

—  Cicero

"Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it."

—  Edmund Burke

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

—  Winston Churchill

"Study the past, if you would define the future."

—  Confucius

"History is a vast early warning system."

—  Norman Cousins

"The past is not dead. It's not even past."

—  William Faukner

"History teaches everything, even the future."

—  Alphonse de Lamartine

"We learn from history that we never learn anything from history."

—  Hegel

"The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. "

—  Mark Twain

"Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it."

—  N. Scott Momaday

"If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree."

—  Michael Crichton

"There are no extraordinary men…just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."

—  William Halsey

"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

—  Winston Churchill

"A country without a memory is a country of madmen."

—  George Santayana

"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."

—  Thomas Carlyle

"If you would understand anything, observe its beginnings and its development."

—  Aristotle

"Nothing falsifies history more than logic."

—  Guizot

"History does not belong to us; we belong to it."

—  Hans-Georg Gadamer

"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."

—  Alexis de Tocqueville

"There is no history, only histories."

—  Karl Popper

"A page of history is worth a volume of logic."

—  O. W. Holmes

"History is the record of encounters between character and circumstances."

—  Donald Creighton

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

—  Karl Marx

"I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is."

—  Maya Angelou

"Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward."

—  Soren Kiekegaard

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

—  Confucius

"Every old man that dies is a library that burns."

—  Amadou Hampate Ba

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

—  Martin Luther King Jr.

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

—  Marcus Garvey

"The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are."

—  Maya Angelou

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

—  Karl Marx

"History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."

—  Malcolm X

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

—  Virginia Woolf

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration…"

—  Carter G. Woodson

"History shows that there are no invincible armies."

—  Joseph Stalin

"If you think you have it tough, read history books."

—  Bill Maher