History Quote by Peter Lynch

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

— Rich Sommer

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

— Dan Quayle

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

— Thucydides

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.

— Phillip Guedala

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

— Paul Valery

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

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

— Agnes Repplier

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

— Philip Kitcher

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter…

— Gary Cohn

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

— Thomas Carlyle