Age Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who…

— Aristotle

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it…

— V. S. Naipaul

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

— Boyd K. Packer

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

— Walter Lippmann

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

— Tanith Lee

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority…

— Leo Strauss

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

— Karl Marx

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to…

— Aldous Huxley

Men make history, not the other way around.

— Harry S. Truman

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx