History is the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.

1. The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin

2. The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
Jill Lepore

3. History is not was, it is.
William Faulkner

4. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf

5. History shows that there are no invincible armies.
Joseph Stalin

6. More than anything else, it is important to study history.
B.B. King

7. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Shay

8. History shows us that people who end up changing the world are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.
John Eloit

9. Those who forgot history are doomed to repeat it
Anonymous

10. Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Hannah Arendt

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

12. History gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions.
Hajo Holborn

13. American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Baldwin

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

15. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke

16. To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda

17. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert

18. History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton

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

20. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

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

22. History' is a Greek word which means, literally, just 'investigation.
Arnold Toynbee

23. 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

24. History happens twice because people don't listen at the first time
Anonymous

25. If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Bill Maher

26. If you stop learning, you stop creating history and become history
Anonymous

27. Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Rosewater, for instance, had shot a fourteen-year-old fireman, mistaking for a German soldier. So it goes. And Billy had seen the greatest massacre in European history, which was the fire-bombing of Dresden. So it goes. So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe. Science fiction was a big help
Kurt Vonnegut

28. What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
Voltaire

29. Soap operas got nothing on my family history.
Kiersten White

30. The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya Angelou

31. Men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley

32. What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on…
Voltaire

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33. It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
Norman Mailer

34. History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Malcolm X

35. History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford

36. If History Repeats Itself, I'm Getting A Dinosaur
Anonymous

37. Don't forget your history nor your destiny.
Bob Marley

38. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Turman

39. We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
Hermann Göring

40. Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Samuel Eliot Morison

41. History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow

42. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

43. Study the Past if you would define the future.
Confucius

44. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas jefferson

45. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston S. Churchill

46. The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Friedrich Hegel

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

48. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

49. 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

50. History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

51. History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins

52. History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Anselm Kiefer

53. History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
Sarah Vowell

54. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Anon

55. To know nothing of what happened before you were born, is to remain a child.
Cicero

56. We are here to create history, not repeat it.
Chantelle Renee

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

58. I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks

59. History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon

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