History Quote by Aubrey Menen

“Without a good understanding of history how can we make informed and therefore good and sensible decisions about current issues? The future then can…

— Keith Tonkin

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will…

— Ian Buruma

“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.”

— arundhati roy

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We should learn from history, but always look to the future, bearing in mind that our decisions will shape it.”

— Alexander Stubb