History Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not to those…

— Brian Dunning

“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.”

— Orrin Woodward

“It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“It is not true that people learn nothing from history: they are marvellous at learning the wrong lessons.”

— Hugh Brogan

“But people tend to forget what isn't in front of their faces, and most of them are too stupid to read their history.”

— Darren Pillsbury

“History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.”

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Hyeonseo Lee

“History is studied. Lessons are learned from it.”

— jhinang

“I have always thought that if I had been allowed to read history more constantly, instead of losing my time in studies for which…

— Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Learning from history helps us avoid repeating its mistakes.”

— T.A. Uner

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery