Quotes About History

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.