Attention Quote by Thomas Sowell

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

— Stephen Colbert

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

— Maynard James Keenan

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

— Max Boot

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

— Oswald Spengler

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp…

— Tony Robinson

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

If we are suppose to forget about the past, why do we have to take history class anyway?

— Anonymous