“The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.”
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Karl Marx
5 quotes“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Thomas Carlyle
4 quotes“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
Otto von Bismarck
4 quotes“The main thing is to make history, not to write it”
Salman Rushdie
4 quotes“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humani...”
Dan Brown
3 quotes“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 quotes“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”
Edmund Burke
3 quotes“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”
Tocqueville
2 quotes“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
Chuck Palahniuk
2 quotes“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
Heinrich Heine
2 quotes“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
Lord Byron
2 quotes“History is the devil's scripture.”