Quotes About Understanding

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.