I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my…

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

— Eudora Welty

“we must be willing to confront and experience the discomfort that accompanies internal change. Only then will we be able to live freely.”

— Amy Lynn Andrews

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“some of history’s lessons here with respect to writing should be obvious: make a copy; back up your data; and beware of invaders.”

— Brian Carroll

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons...

— Rosa Parks

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.”

— Hyeonseo Lee

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“History's lessons don't expire after a few decades.”

— Anonymous

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their…

— A'Lelia Bundles

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

“The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but…

— Stephen Fry

History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn…

— Hilaire Belloc

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced…

— Dan Simmons