Explanation Quote by Dave Barry

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before…

— Thomas Sowell

The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.

— Shang Yang

One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.

— Norman Davies

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in…

— Lance Armstrong

“We can better understand a thing when we know its history. How did it come about? Who if anyone invented or pioneered it?  Why? ”

— Gary Hoover

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory…

— David Stove

“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in…

— Kevin Guilfoile

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”

— H.L. Mencken

I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough simple falsifications…

— Garry Kasparov

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

— Thomas Sowell

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

— Sidney Hook

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

— Steven Novella