Blind Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the…

— Aberjhani

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

— Larry Kramer

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

— F. Sionil Jose

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.”

— J. Christopher Herold

“The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made…

— Michael Lewis

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

— Carl L. Becker

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy

In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the…

— Dave Barry