History Quote by Tracy Kidder

“He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future…

— Stefan Zweig

“A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past.”

— S.M. White

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past…

— Aporva Kala

“The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.”

— Erika Robuck

“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with…

— Karen Fowler

“Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.”

— Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

“People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.”

— APORVAKALA

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.”

— Paul Christopher