All kinds Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man…

— Anonymous

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part…

— René Descartes

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

— John Hope Franklin

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

“...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion.…

— Alberto Manguel

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: If you…

— Anonymous

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

— Ben Sasse

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

— Thomas Jefferson

“I have always thought that if I had been allowed to read history more constantly, instead of losing my time in studies for which…

— Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things,…

— Donald Kagan

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them,…

— Rene Descartes