Quotes About Knowledge

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

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

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

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

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.