古人云：前事不忘，后世之师；历史就是一面镜子，通过这面镜子你可以发现很多有规律的事情，不管是国内还是国外都拿历史来借鉴，下面我收集了一些有关历史的英文名人名言。

1.History is the essence of innumerable biographies.-Thomas Carlyle : Essay on History

2.No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.-Carlyle : Heroes and Hero-Worship

3.History is philosophy teaching by examples.-Dionysius

4.The history of the great events of this world is scarcely more than the history of crimes.-Voltaire

5.History -- which is, indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.-Edward Gibbon

6.There is properly no history : only biography.-(Emerson

7.We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.-George Bernard Shaw

8.After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident or incident, you begin to wonder about history.-Anonymous

9.Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.-Robert Kennedy

10.A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.-Mahatma Gandhi

11.History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.-Napoleon Bonaparte

12.Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.-George Washington

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

14.Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.-John Adams

15.The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.-Mark Twain