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
“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
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
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 is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite… — Livy 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
