History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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.
Study the past if you would define the future.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited, or erased. It can only be accepted.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.