Quotes About Reflection

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

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

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

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

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

History...a release from the troublesome promiscuous present.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

History is a bucket of ashes.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

History! Read it and weep!