Enlightened Quote by Mark Twain

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

— Oswald Spengler

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

“If learning lessons from history is a mark of enlightenment, so is breaking free from it. This applies equally to every religion, caste, creed…

— Translated by Sandeep Balakrishna S.L. Bhyrappa

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

— Wole Soyinka

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

“Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to…

— Fidel Castro

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

— Gordon S. Wood

“Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it”

— Dean Cavanagh

“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt