History Quote by Norman Lear Download Open image “We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.” — Norman Lear ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History May People Self Wells
I don't think we can understand who we are without illuminating the steps that led us here. And I like to remind people we… — Deborah Blum Copy Share Image
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't… — Usher Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
For some odd reason in our society today it's not what WE KNOW but WHO WE KNOW that makes us known — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more.… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.' — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
