History is memory made shareable — a way we listen to the past, understand the present, and shape what comes next. As Thomas Carlyle saw it: “History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”

History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~ John W. Gardner

History is a vast early warning system. ~ Norman Cousins

The history of the world is but the biography of heroes. ~ Thomas Carlyle

History can’t tell us; each generation must define itself. ~ Geoffrey C. Ward

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher

History is not going to be kind to liberals… they have managed to destroy the family and work ethic. ~ Walter Williams

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

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ~ Stephen Spender

History is best written generations after the event, when fact and memory have fused into what can be accepted as truth. ~ Theodore H. White

World history is a court of judgment. ~ Georg Hegel

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

A generation that ignores history has no past and no future. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~ James Baldwin

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. ~ Leonard Louis Levinson

A good writer of history is suspicious; that is the mark of one who seeks an honest record. ~ Jim Bishop

A knowledge of history makes you see things as they are. ~ Gianni Versace

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. ~ Sioux Proverb