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
“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice. — Alfred Thayer Mahan 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 great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to… — Donald Worster 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
“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.” — Elizabeth Kostova 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
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga 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
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
In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. — Orson Scott Card 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
“Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment… — George M. Dennison 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
“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
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
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
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
