Hannah Arendt Quotes

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Never, ever forget history.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

We are reminded here of our past, of the continuity of our national story, and the virtues of resilience, ingenuity, and tolerance which created it…

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)