Quotes About History

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.