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 lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams 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 great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams 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
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. — Jill Lepore 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'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
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
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
“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
One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or… — Min Jin Lee 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
“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
It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history… — Jimmy Carter 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
“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
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
Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens… — Mahmud Tarzi 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
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler 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
“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
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
“It seems only human nature to hang the label irrational on what we do not understand, since it is easy for us… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore 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 comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier 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
“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
“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
