Entirety Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

We should study history to know ourself.

— M. K. Stalin

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

— Adolf von Harnack

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

— Andrzej Duda

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

— Joseph Conrad

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

— Paul Valery

While we read history we make history.

— George William Curtis

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.

— Kiera Cass