35 History Quotes: Inspirational Words of Wisdom

35 History Quotes

Isn’t History fascinating? We owe our modern lives (good and bad) to those who lived before us. Everyone from the Ancient Greek founders of democracy to the Founding Fathers of the USA, to Winston Churchill’s refusal to make peace with the Nazis – they affect our lives even now. The device you are reading this blog post on – only came about because of the second world war.Did you know that? Modern computers were invented to help the Allies break the German Enigma codes; without the second world war, there may have been no funding or desperate need to discover that machines can handle calculations at lightning speeds.

Look around you. Every single item in your sightline that’s man-made was envisioned, designed, costed, and manufactured by ‘someone’. This process only began in earnest after the industrial revolution. Before that, we were artisans – making everything ourselves, or trading something our neighbor had made in exchange for something we could give them.

Modern economics, science, medicine, warfare, computer games, and even GPS satellites are all due to inventors (and their investors and sponsors) having a vision and creating something new.

So be inspired by these Quotes about History and know that we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

Every time you make a cup of coffee, use a fishhook, ride an elevator, or simply (if you’re lucky enough), enjoy the freedom and personal liberty – you’ve got someone in history to thank for that.

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History Quotes

Published by: Ben Gillison

    History Quotes

    Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.	Winston Churchill

  1. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
    Winston Churchill
  2. The only duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Short
  3. We don’t form history – we are formed by it.
    Martain Luther King Jr
  4. What is history but a fable agreed upon?
    Napoleon Bonaparte
    Philosophy
  5. There is history in all men’s lives.
    Shakespeare
    Meaningful
  6. History is philosophy teaching by example.
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Philosophy
  7. History is after all nothing but a pack of tricks which we play upon the dead.
    Voltaire
    Quotes to Live by
  8. History is the study of other people’s mistakes.
    Philip Guedalla
    Mistake
  9. The knowledge of what has gone before affords the best instruction for the direction and guidance of human life.
    Polybius
    Knowledge
  10. Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham

  11. Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
    W. Somerset Maugham
    Proverbs
  12. What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it shall again combine in the same way.
    Abraham Lincoln
  13. We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
    George Burnard Shaw
  14. History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
    Philip Guedalla
    Great Quotes About Life
  15. We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
    Voltaire
    Truth
  16. Even the gods cannot change history.
    Agathon, in Aristotle
    Change
  17. The historian is a prophet in reverse.
    Friedrich Von Schlegel
    Wisdom
  18. Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
    John E. E. Dalberg
    Dignity
  19. To form an opinion of human nature from a perusal of history, is like judging of a fine city by its sewers and cess-pools
    Chatfield
    Opinion
  20. To study history is to study literature.
    Books
  21. History is past politics, and politics is present history. E. A. Freeman

  22. History is past politics, and politics is present history.
    E. A. Freeman
    Present
  23. You must make your own history in able to truly see how the connections can be made, but your history must be made on your own.
    Mia Tanaka, The Other Place
    Finding Yourself
  24. History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
    Paul Eldridge
    Transformation
  25. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    One Line Quotes On Life
  26. History is a vast early warning system.
    Norman Cousins
    Preparation
  27. History is a better guide than good intentions.
    Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
    Trust
  28. History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
    James Joyce
    Dream Quotes
  29. History shows that there are no invincible armies.
    Joseph Stalin
    War Quotes
  30. To know one’s origins is to know one’s present and to be able to create one’s future.
    William Henry Schubert
    Future
  31. Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
    W. H. Auden
    Past
  32. Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvétius

  33. Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    Motivational
  34. History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
    Enoch Powell
  35. History is the propaganda of the victors.
    Ernst Toller
  36. As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
    Allan Bloom
  37. Only through history does a nation become completely conscious of itself. Accordingly, history is to be regarded as the national conscience of the human race.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
  38. History is only a confused heap of facts. Philip Stanhope

  39. History is only a confused heap of facts.
    Philip Stanhope

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