Quotes About Insight

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

Error has never approached my spirit.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

Literature is the history of the soul.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

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

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.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

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.