Top 100 History Lessons Quotes
#1. I was reminded of our history lessons, in which we learned about the loot or bounty an army enjoys when a battle is won. I began to see the awards and recognition just like that. They were little jewels without much meaning. I needed to concentrate on winning the war.
Malala Yousafzai
#2. Alec looked impressed. "I didn't know all that."
Jace hopped on the windowsill and swung his legs. "Not all of us sleep through history lessons."
"I do not
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"Oh yes you do, and drool on the desk besides."
"Shut up said Magnus, but he said it quite mildly.
Cassandra Clare
#3. International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.
Egon Bahr
#4. I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#5. Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#6. History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
Andrew Marr
#7. The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Robert A. Heinlein
#8. War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget.
Robert Graff
#9. The world is now changing, reviving fears that were familiar in Hitler's time, and to which Hitler responded. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned.
Timothy Snyder
#10. Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
Albert Einstein
#11. I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
J. Rufus Fears
#12. The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague of its own making.
Dew Platt
#13. Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
#14. Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say ... " They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision ... " They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold ... " But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
Sheri S. Tepper
#16. T's one of history's many valuable lessons: the foot soldiers tend to be the casualties in any conflict, not the generals.
Mark Mills
#17. First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I put dictatorships and velociraptors in the same category: leave them in the past, where they can serve as frightening object lessons for the present.
Holly Lisle
#18. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn't all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!
Martin Van Buren
#19. Today's life is tomorrow's career and yesterday's history, live it well.
Rajesh Walecha
#20. Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change
Thomas S. Power
#21. I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
Zbigniew Herbert
#22. One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.
Will Durant
#23. TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely
Fela Durotoye
#24. The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon Musk
#25. History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
Jim Leach
#27. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
#28. A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#29. Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
Michael Morpurgo
#30. History's greatest lessons is that once the state embraces a religion, the nature of that religion changes radically. It loses its nonviolent component
Mark Kurlansky
#31. A conquering force sustained the old folks and now centers us. Forming a collective of comeback saints, let us rally behind them and move forward. We're called to a new awakening and application of what we've learned from those who've looked over Jordan.
Deborah L. Parker
#32. Trust the people
that is the crucial lesson of history.
Ronald Reagan
#33. We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
T. F. Tout
#34. History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?'
'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.
Cinda Williams Chima
#35. The beauty of history is that it can be altered by changing ones perspective. If the interpretation varies so does the impact. Free will is the governor.
Truth Devour
#36. The lessons of past is critical for teachings in present. And experience in the future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget "what the old folks say." Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did indeed have it right! Their common-sense ways allowed them to get through the worst of conditions throughout history and still we thrive from their bold undertakings.
Deborah L. Parker
#38. If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.
Edwin Gaustad
#39. Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another
Kirsten Beyer
#40. Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.
Marc Singer
#42. History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
Conn Iggulden
#43. By studying yesterday, you will understand today.
Suzy Kassem
#44. The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been
Timothy Snyder
#46. If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.
Mary Fisher
#48. If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
Lucien Febvre
#49. History repeating itself, he thought. Lessons learned long ago so often needed to be learned all over again in the present. It might true here, and he might be the student who was being taught.
Terry Brooks
#50. Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
Max Mayfield
#51. We can ignore the lessons of nature and of history, but we cannot avoid the consequences of doing so. As Benjamin Franklin warned us, "Experience holds a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other.
Timothy Daughtry
#52. He built the Empire, yet he was also the principal in its destruction. A great man, in so many ways, but great men have great faults ... One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once ... Unless there are no other choices.
Joe Abercrombie
#53. Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
Anatoly Karpov
#54. History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers.
Amber Kizer
#55. I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.
Fred D'Aguiar
#56. It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
Douglas Hurd
#57. Suddenly, in my mind I hear my father say, 'Mind over matter, son. You can do this. You can accomplish anything as long as you really want to.
Marc Ashton
#58. History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.
Henry Clausen
#59. No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.
Peter Kreeft
#60. History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.
George Otis
#61. The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.
Susan L. Taylor
#62. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Aldous Huxley
#63. Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated the lesson of history.
Russell Baker
#65. The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.
Rick Perry
#66. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.
T.A. Uner
#67. The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George F. Kennan
#68. The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.
Ariel Durant
#69. Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
Richard Marius
#70. I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
Ricky Jay
#71. History has taught us that no society built upon the exploitation of any of its individuals can long endure
Kirsten Beyer
#72. I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.
Tony Blair
#73. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.
Harper Lee
#74. History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
Paddy Ashdown
#75. Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#76. Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.
Douglas Alexander
#77. I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.
Warren Mundine
#78. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.
Aaron B. Powell
#79. When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.
Os Guinness
#80. It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done in the past in the hope we can stop repeating these horrible lessons.
Matana Roberts
#81. Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.
Rajiv Gandhi
#82. A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
Thomas Jefferson
#83. History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.
Paul Rusesabagina
#84. The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history.
Ron Chernow
#85. In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.
Charles Martin
#86. Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Emile Zola
#87. If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#88. You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
Pittacus Lore
#90. History didn't always predict the future. You had to live it one day at a time to find out what happened next.
Wade Kelly
#91. Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Norman Borlaug
#92. Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.
Judith Viorst
#93. Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.
Len Deighton
#94. Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.
Hilaire Belloc
#95. The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.
Walter Gilbert
#96. Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D.H. Lawrence
#97. If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
Seth Klarman
#98. The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
Richard M. Nixon
#99. Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
Nicolas Bentley
#100. My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
Laura Carmichael
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