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

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

2. History is written by the winners.
Napoleon

3. The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
Herbert Hoover

4. And the rest is history.
Leann Rimes

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

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

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

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

9. The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
Carroll Quigley

10. 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 Truman
Harry S. Truman

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

12. 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

13. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell

14. History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford

15. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

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

17. The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
Yukiya Amano

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

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

20. History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson

21. History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides

22. Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. Robert Smithson

23. It's a case of history repeating itself.
Stewart Newnham

24. World history is tragic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

25. Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?
Rob Liano

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

27. There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
Stephen Colbert

28. As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
Jennifer Granholm

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

30. Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It
Anonymous

31. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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35. You can't rewrite history but you Can… Impact the future
Anonymous

36. You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

40. Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius

41. The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
Jean Bodin

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

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

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

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

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

47. 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.
Robert Penn Warren

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

49. The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.
Theodore Roosevelt

50. History happens twice because people don’t listen at the first time
Anonymous

51. 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

52. Without History, There would be No Future
Anonymous

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

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

55. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why it is called present
Anonymous

56. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

57. Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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