Quotes About Knowledge

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.