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History Quotes

History Quotes

1. We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James Baldwin

3. History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

4. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

5. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

6. History develops, art stands still. - E. M. Forster

7. The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

8. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

9. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

10. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

11. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

12. France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. - Francois Mitterrand

13. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

14. History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F. Kennedy

15. We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. John F. Kennedy

16. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. - Karl Marx

17. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. - Michelle Obama

18. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. - George Orwell

19. 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 F. Kennedy

20. If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

21. There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. - Harry S Truman

22. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

23. Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

24. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking

25. If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

26. Sometimes - history needs a push. - Vladimir Lenin

27. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan

28. Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato

29. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. - Leo Tolstoy

30. More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. - Kofi Annan

31. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. - Victor Hugo

32. The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

33. 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

34. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - Aristotle

35. The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. - Bill Gates

36. If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling.

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