History Quotes

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

Ken Hensley

The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John F. Kennedy

Patriotism ruins history.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Isaac Asimov

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

Han Suyin