History Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Learning from history helps us avoid repeating its mistakes.”

— T.A. Uner

“It wasn't enough just to read and study historical facts, whoever studied history should consider Themselves creators of history”

— U Aung San

“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

“... anecdotes can easily become interpretations, and the facts expand in minds when they are not opposed by knowledge.”

— Bernd Heinrich

“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

“Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If…

— Aron Ra

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Enlighten your life with history.”

— Elaine C. Shigley

“As far as history and science are concerned, I'm pretty sure I can wing it. Turns out I learned more in Internet school than…

— Alyson Noel