Quotes About Knowledge

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

History is an accumulation of error.

Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

History is absolutely my thing.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.