Ancestor Quote by Christopher Tunnard

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer…

— David McCullough

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot…

— C. S. Lewis

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

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where…

— Natasha Trethewey

All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation…

— Sonali Bendre

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

— Wendell Phillips

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture…

— Maria Montessori

Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are…

— John Dos Passos

“There is ... a great wisdom in our language. It is the embodiment of innumerable experiences of the past. It is not by chance…

— The Shaking of the Foundations Paul Tillich