Quotes About Knowledge

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

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?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

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?

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

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.

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.