Action Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

— Henry A. Kissinger

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved…

— Gerda Lerner

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of…

— Benedetto Croce

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

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line…

— Douglas Hurd

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or…

— Paul Ham

I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past…

— Sarnath Banerjee

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of…

— Annie Besant

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte