The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.
History is a vast early warning system.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.