We study history in order to intervene in the course of history. — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft. — Winston Churchill 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
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school… — John Irving 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
We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Our firm: We study history. We think about the future. We try to analyze what's going on in the present. — Scott Bessent 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 requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
My loves in life are food, history and rugby. I'd love to be a history professor or a rugby player but I… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country… — Colm Toibin 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
To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago?… — Ambeth Ocampo 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
“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“The job was “a graveyard of politicians” in Washington parlance, traditionally disparaged by the men who held it. The VP before Truman,… — A.J. Baime 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
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history. — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every… — Da Xia Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a… — Anonymous 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
