Arrogance Quote by Ken Burns Download Open image “It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past” — Ken Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arrogance Forget Inspiring Intelligence Past Pride Time
“The arrogance of the present is that we think we know more than the past.” — Tom Roston Copy Share Image
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past. — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more foolish, nothing more wicked than to drag the skeletons of the past, the hideous images, the foolish deeds, the unfortunate experiences… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war,… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans? — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived.… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
What you see of me on TV and all of that, that is me - that's truly how I feel. I'm just multiplying it.… — Baron Corbin Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Some say work smarter, not harder, but the wisest are both. Whether you're more of a hard worker or a smart worker, if you're… — Colby Tatem Copy Share Image
Closed some doors, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere. — Frenz Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
