History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is written by the victors, but truth is harvested by the diligent.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

History is not was, it is.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.

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

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

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

All history is current; all injustice continues to slumber and fester beneath what we call the peace of our civilization.

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

The function of history is to tell us what we are by telling us what we have been.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.