Quotes About Knowledge

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

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

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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 is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

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