The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred… — William Stewart Wallace 1932 Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the study of history is cheaper than the exercise of unearned self-righteousness that derives from nothing more virtuous than ordinary… — Edwin Yoder Copy Share Image
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“His naivety was of the sort that Descartes no doubt had in mind when he concluded that the study of history, like… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite… — Livy Copy Share Image
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
“fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“The study of history can be sobering and shocking, and morally troubling. One does not have to believe in original sin to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“produced a race of heroes, so not less surely did the growth of luxury and absolutism, assisted by the narrow-mindedness of a… — H. Morse Stephens Copy Share Image
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful.… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“But in writing your constitution let me invite attention the wonderful virtues of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Those who complain that Catholicism cannot say anything new, seldom think it necessary to say anything new about Catholicism. As a matter… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
