history quotes

“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

— Aldous Huxley

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”

— Aldous Huxley

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”

— Victor Hugo

“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”

— Victor Hugo

“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. ”

— Franz Kafka

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.”

— Christina Aguilera

“Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. ”

— George Washington Bush

“Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. ”

— George Washington Bush

“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. ”

— Johnny Depp

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

— Maya Angelou

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”

— Warren Buffett

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”

— William James

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.”

— Rush Limbaugh