1. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” – Winston Churchill
2. “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” – James Arthur Baldwin
3. “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” – Michael Chrichton
4. “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
5. “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
6. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” – Aldous Huxley
7. “The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” – Mark Twain
8. “Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius
9. “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
10. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill
And a bonus quotation of unknown origin:
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever” – Anonymous
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