Indira Gandhi Quotes

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

The past is what the past is.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

The past is where its supposed to be.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

History is neither a political fable in which all the brothers are valiant and all the sisters virtuous, nor is it a tabloid expose, full of crimes and follies, signifying nothing but victimization. There is, I must admit, a caustic delight in unveiling the frailties of our Jeffersons and our Lincolns, but the delight turns malevolent when it serves only to strip the American past of anything remarkable or exceptional, or when it demeans or discourages civic engagement and confidence.

History is a battleground... but it has always been the case. Remembering is a radical act. Choosing what is important and what belongs in the overstuffed metaphorical dustbin of history is of vital importance.

Mr. Nixon … will, with time, be a landmark in the history of quiet, determined desperation.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

[Addressing Thomas Jefferson:] Your taste is judicious in liking better the dreams of the future than the history of the past.

Richard M. Nixon ... has a deeper concern for his place in history than for the people he governs. And history will not fail to note that fact.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these

Each century believes its fight to be weightier than that of all others preceding it.