What is history?

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. ~Joseph Heller, Good as Gold

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. ~Dexter Perkins

History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~John W. Gardner

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. ~Konrad Adenauer

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~Author Unknown

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. ~Jean Jaures

To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child. (Cicero)

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)

We cannot escape history. (Abraham Lincoln)