History Quote by Hilary Mantel

“How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how easy to…

— Robert Harris

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay a visit…

— Umberto Eco

“The conduct [of today] is ignorance of the past [life] whereas understanding (samjhan) is the stock carried forward from many past lives!”

— Dada Bhagwan

Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified…

— Mark Hopkins

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

— David Shannon

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the…

— Frederick Jackson Turner

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

— Ernest Dimnet

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved…

— Gerda Lerner

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking…

— Sarah Dessen

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone…

— Olivia d'Abo

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

— Laura Esquivel