Learning History Quotes

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

The capitalists … were better than the communists and learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallenged theory of history.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

History is a vast early warning system.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

THIS WILL BE FINAL MESSAGE FROM SAIGON STATION…. IT HAS BEEN A LONG FLIGHT AND WE HAVE LOST…. THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE FORCED TO REPEAT IT. LET US HOPE THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER VIETNAM EXPERIENCE AND THAT WE HAVE LEARNED A LESSON. SAIGON SIGNING OFF.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

I love anything to do with history.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.