Quotes About Insight

The only new thing is history we don't know.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

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

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

History is absolutely my thing.

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.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.