Quotes About Wisdom

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

Error has never approached my spirit.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

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

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

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.

Never say more than is necessary.