History Quote by Keith Tonkin

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it…

— Aubrey Menen

“History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this point in…

— Ming-Dao Deng

“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves…

— Henning Mankell

“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will…

— Ian Buruma

“We should learn from history, but always look to the future, bearing in mind that our decisions will shape it.”

— Alexander Stubb

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“Information about the future is much more valuable and interesting than information about the past.”

— Stephen Asbury