Certain Quote by Jostein Gaarder

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But if you…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several…

— Julien Benda

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

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

— Julian Baggini

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

— Leszek Kolakowski

I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick…

— Tenzin Palmo

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Agnes Repplier

“As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about…

— Marcelo Gleiser

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or…

— A. J. P. Taylor