Clear Quote by Paul Valery

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.

— Kiera Cass

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu 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

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

— Paul Pierce

A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly.…

— Lucy Worsley