Quotes About History

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We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Leszek KoĊ‚akowski

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

History never repeats itself, as most people fear. People usually repeat history.

Divine Chikobvu

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

History repeats itself. Somebody says this. History throws its shadows over the beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters. History is a little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of. I know history. There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

Richard Siken

Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.

Woody Allen

Where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it 'history.'

The Wizard

I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.

Ellen Orleans

There is properly no history; only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Adolf Hitler