18 quotes
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again”
— Maya Angelou
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana
“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Look back over the past with its changing empires that rose and fell and you can foresee the future too”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
— Chinua Achebe
“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history of compassion and sacrifice.”
— Howard Zinn
“Understanding the past is essential for building a just future”
— Nikole Hannah-Jones
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
— Confucius
“There is that great proverb that until the lions have their own historians the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Peace requires all voices.”
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
— Karl Marx
“Because we are denied knowledge of our history we are deprived of standing on each others shoulders”
— Judy Chicago
“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again and that facing is healing”
“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”
— Cicero
“A people without knowledge of their past history origin and culture is like a tree without roots”
— Ngugi wa Thiongo
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