Contradiction Quote by Eric Hobsbawm

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

— Colin Thubron

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

— Bruce Fein

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

— C. V. Wedgwood

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“The truths and philosophies explored in the saga offer lessons seemingly lost on nation after nation, since they fail to learn from and inevitably…

— Glenn G. Thater

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

— Winston Churchill

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

— Richard Lamm

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the…

— Aberjhani

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau