Quotes About Knowledge

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

History's a resource.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

History is the devil's scripture.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.