Action Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.”

— Thomas Jefferson

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a…

— John Quincy Adams

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Herbert Butterfield

To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high…

— Leopold von Ranke

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich…

— Cesar Chavez

“One writer said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people’s lives. If we were to apply that maxim…

— Thomas S. Monson

The past may dictate who we are, but we get to determine what we become.

— Stephen Spielberg

“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

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a…

— Honore de Balzac

“If we start judging people by their past, they will never have a future.”

— April Wisneski