Quotes About History

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.