Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want…

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

— Anais Nin

Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to…

— John Stott

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

— Anonymous

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is…

— Niall Ferguson

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the…

— John Hope Franklin

“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical, then the…

— Daphne du Maurier

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start…

— Karl Mannheim

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the…

— Paul Valery

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This…

— Edward Said

“It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the…

— John Lukacs

“young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have…

— Niall Ferguson

“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way…

— Russell A. Peck

“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

My historical knowledge of the French Revolution is based on 17 viewings of History of the World, Part I.

— Anonymous