If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I can't find this quote in Spinoza's writings. Do you have a cite? If you want the present to be different from… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.” — arundhati roy Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
“If investors only had to study the past, the richest people would be librarians.” — Daniel Pecaut Copy Share Image
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of… — Christopher Tunnard Copy Share Image
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The study of the past with one eye, so to speak, upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
“The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
