Causes Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

— Gustave Flaubert

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they…

— Victor Davis Hanson

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

History can just be so unkind as time passes.

— Joshua Henry

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central…

— George Santayana

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us.…

— Cormac McCarthy

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt

“We live in this bubble of ignorance. Most people know nothing about history, or the historical context of the traditions they still follow today.…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov