History Quotes

Butler, Samuel
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.


Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.


Emerson, Ralph Waldo
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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