Quotes About Wisdom

Never stop reading. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

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

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

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

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

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

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

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

History's a resource.

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.

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.