Quotes About Reflection

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

Each day is a drive through history.

It's up to history to judge.

History is more or less bunk.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

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.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

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

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

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

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.