Advantage Quote by Benjamin Franklin

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has…

— John C. Danforth

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by…

— John Maynard Keynes

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

— Mario Bunge

What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second,…

— William Ernest Hocking

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it…

— David Hume

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

— Dave Brat

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition…

— Bertrand Russell

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables…

— Carl L. Becker

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

— Richelle Mead

Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in…

— Paul Copan