Here's a great collection of quotes about history that I found via Winter Rabbit (whose discussion of rights, religion and law is quite provocative). Some good ones:
P.S. it's not exactly a history quote, but I just ran across Terry's posting of the full "We are the music makers / we are the dreamers of the dream" poem cited in Willy Wonka. The last line is one I might use in my history collection: "For each age is a dream that is dying, / Or one that is coming to birth."
E. L. Doctorow:
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Edward Gibbon:
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Etienne Gilson:
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
Friedrich Von Schiller:
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
George Bernard Shaw:
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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