Quotes About Understanding

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.