Dangerous Quote by Brent Scowcroft

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops…

— Simon Schama

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

— Paul Kengor

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains…

— Paul Valery

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

— Frederick Douglass

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

— Nikita Khrushchev

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We are set to make very bad history.

— Tom Wilson

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

— Eskinder Nega

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and…

— Robert Christgau

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform…

— Albert Bandura

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

— Nicolas Bentley

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

— Anonymous