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| History is the science of things which are not repeated. | | Paul Valery | |
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| History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history | | Clarence Darrow | |
| History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap | | Ronald Reagan | |
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| History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. | | H. G. Wells | |
| I am captivated more by dreams of the future than by the history of the past | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death | | Robert Fulghum | |
| I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. | | Douglas MacArthur | |
| I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make | | Henry Ford | |
| I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. | | Rudyard Kipling | |
| If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. | | Isaac Newton | |
| Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. | | Voltaire | |
| It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible | | Mark Twain | |
Lessons taught but never learned,
all around us anger burns.
Guide the future by the past.
Long ago the mould was cast. | | Neil Peart | |
