Quotes About Knowledge

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

To study history is to study literature.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

A book brings its own history to the reader.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

I am a fan of history.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.