Quotes About Study Of History

#1. Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and realized that I had never used the index of a book fit to read.

T.E. Lawrence

#2. The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

Agnes Repplier

#3. I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

Elizabeth Kostova

#4. One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Salman Rushdie

#5. The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Henry Adams

#6. The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

John Steinbeck

#7. What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Johan Huizinga

#8. The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#9. The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

John Adams

#10. I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#11. There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.

Donald Worster

#12. As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter ...

Margaret Atwood

#13. The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Jill Lepore

#14. But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.

Paul A. Baran

#15. The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Madame De Stael

#16. Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.

Louis L'Amour

#17. Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.

Mahmud Tarzi

#18. It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Goldwin Smith

#19. The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Terry Eagleton

#20. A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

Raymond Geuss

#21. Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who did what to whom, why and when - and who did it first.

Henry Grunwald

#22. To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ... it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

John Quincy Adams

#23. The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Aberjhani

#24. Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

Raymond Geuss

#25. The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Jean Bodin

#26. Society and government may be quite distinct concepts but the study of history makes it very difficult to determine that there ever was a society without a government, let alone vice versa.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.

Charles A. Beard

#28. Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding the evidence overwhelmingly persuasive, the method beyond reproach, the results replicable, and the analyses sound.

George M. Dennison

#29. I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

George McGovern

#30. In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Orson Scott Card

#31. The special and salutary benefit of the study of history is to behold evidence of every sort of behavior set forth as on a splendid memorial; from it you may select for yourself and for your country what to emulate, from it what to avoid, whether basely begun or basely concluded.

Livy

#32. The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Neil Gaiman

#34. The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#35. It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

Lucien Febvre

#36. Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

A.J.P. Taylor

#37. To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

Polykarp Kusch

#38. History is really a study of the future, not the past.

Arundhati Roy

#39. Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

C.V. Wedgwood

#40. Drest had made a careful study of the Discordian philosophy and realized it was the kind of outlandish nonsense that would appeal to the kind of people who made all the trouble in history-brilliant, intellectual, slightly deranged dope fiends and oddball math-and-technology buffs.

Robert Anton Wilson

#41. Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

Franz Boas

#42. Jean-Pierre Marquis, From a Geometrical Point of View: A Study of the History and Philosophy of Category Theory, Springer Science & Business Media, 2008.

Roger Scruton

#43. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston S. Churchill

#44. Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

Louise J. Kaplan

#45. For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

Joachim Schmid

#46. In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

Paul Washer

#47. If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Henri Poincare

#48. Who owns history? Everyone and no one
which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

Eric Foner

#49. We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Patti Smith

#50. If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

Ethan Hawke

#51. Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

Malcolm X

#52. The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

Peter Ackroyd

#53. I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Muhammad Iqbal

#54. For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#55. And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

#56. You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#57. The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

Michael E. DeBakey

#58. I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Alex Haley

#59. I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

Eric Bana

#60. The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time. If you're lucky, sometimes you can even extrapolate to possible futures." "I'm not

M.R. Carey

#61. Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Raymond Queneau

#62. Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

W. H. Auden

#63. Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Jared Diamond

#64. If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

Roald Dahl

#65. Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

Richard Hornby

#66. The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#67. At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours ... Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

Philip Yancey

#68. We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or - in the words of Our Lord - it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus.

Pope Francis

#69. The "called" get so puffed up with how important they think their service is to God's success, they assume God will compensate for their lack of parenting skills. A short study in sociological history will reveal this isn't true, never has been true, and likely never will be true of God.

Linda Rios Brook

#70. Yet my study of the history of religion has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals. Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus

Karen Armstrong

#71. If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

Patrick N. Allitt

#72. I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

Paul Valery

#73. In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

C. V. Raman

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

John Buchan

#75. His face was a study in concentration and empathy, as if every word I said was of supreme importance. It was that expression, that intensity, that had worn me down, and won me over, history lesson after history lesson, day after day, and he didn't even know I was his.

Amy Harmon

#76. History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

Johan Huizinga

#77. When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.

Thomas L. Friedman

#78. From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Polybius

#79. In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction

A.J.P. Taylor

#80. My father ... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds ...

Andre-Marie Ampere

#81. I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.

Karen DeCrow

#82. A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

Charles E. Wilson

#83. I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

Joan Sutherland

#84. History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

#85. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer, Simon and Schuster, 1960, New York; Hitler, a Study in Tyranny, by Alan Bullock, Harper, 1953, New York;

Philip K. Dick

#86. I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted with sensitivity and respect. Reburying relics, in my view, does not help anyone go anywhere.

Richard Leakey

#87. History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

Nancy Pickard

#88. No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth.

R.C. Sproul

#89. Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it. 'It's just life,' they say.

Douglas Adams

#90. Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

Adrian Rogers

#91. The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Gunnar Myrdal

#92. The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

Alice Morse Earle

#93. When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

John Sedgwick

#94. History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?

Joelle Charbonneau Independent Study

#95. I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.

Robert Dick Wilson

#96. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating new realities ... we're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

Ron Suskind

#97. The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#98. History is the study of the abuse of power.

Marty Rubin

#99. If westerners cannot legitimately study the history of Africa or the Middle East, then only fish can study marine biology.

Bernard Lewis

#100. Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

Thomas Sowell