Commemoration Quote by Norman O. Brown

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

— John Smith

“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . .…

— Gaston Bachelard

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and…

— Bill Nye

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what…

— Learned Hand

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to…

— Humberto Maturana

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

“One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived…

— Osip Mandelstam

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr