Quotes About Wisdom

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

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

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.

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

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.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.