Quotes About Understanding

We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

You have to know the past to understand the present.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

All history is contemporary history.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.