Quotes About Wisdom

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

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

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

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

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

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

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

History is a great dust heap.

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

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

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

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.