I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history.
Pablo Picasso
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King Jr
History is merely gossip.
Oscar Wilde
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
Adolf Hitler
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
Life moves fast. As much as you can, learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Eddie Vedder
The best prophet of the future is the past.
Lord Byron
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
Boris Becker
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
The past changes a little every time we retell it.
Hilary Mantel
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James Baldwin
History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCullough
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin