I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
History is not was, it is.
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
All history was at first oral.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today’s laurels are tomorrow’s compost.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
History is an argument without end.
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
I am Cyrus, king of the world...