Living in the past? Here are some proverbs and quotes about history.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl SaganBack in the days when animals could talk ...
(unknown author)History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George SantayanaHistory is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad AdenauerHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon BonaparteHistory is written by the victors.
Winston ChurchillHistory recalls how great the fall can be.
SupertrampSource: Lyrics: Fool's Overture
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston ChurchillI know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Neil deGrasse TysonI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas JeffersonIf you had to choose a moment in history to be born, and you did not know ahead of time who you would be -- you didn't know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you'd be born, whether you were going to be a man or a woman -- if you had to choose blindly what moment you'd want to be born you'd choose now.
Barack ObamaIt is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David ThoreauNever doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge PiercyNews is only the first rough draft of history.
Alan BarthOnce upon a time, in a land far far away...
(unknown author)One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will DurantSuccess in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Stephen HawkingThe beauty of things must be... that they end.
Jack KerouacThe funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
Terry JonesThe history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.
Andy DunnThe history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul GauguinThose who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund BurkeWithout question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
Dave BarryYesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift: that's why we call it - The Present.
(unknown author)You shouldn't live in the past, but you shouldn't erase it either.
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