History Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of…

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical…

— Max Boot

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help…

— Criss Jami

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

— Terence McKenna

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

— Erwin Schrodinger