Culture Quote by S. Joel Garver

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

— Robert Wilson

“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another…

— Emil Cioran

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“Our past makes us the people we are today, and forgetting is the last thing I want to do. It makes you stronger and…

— Alexandria Bishop

“There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do not know;…

— Roland Barthes

“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Why this book? In today’s globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of…

— Thomas Jerome Baker

“It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The…

— Lawrence Lessig

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

— T.A. Uner

“If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the…

— John Zanetti

“We live, and then forgetting -- we live yet again. Sometimes, the consequences of the past follow us across many lives.”

— Daniel H. Wilson