Studying History Quotes

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, History, Secret

  "Churchill By Himself".

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• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

  Hermann Hesse

  Faith, Mean, Order

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• 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

  Mistake, Past, Study

  'Listener' 6 June 1963

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• One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

  Thomas Sowell

  Stupid, Ideas, Important

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• As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

  Peter Lynch

  Philosophy, Preparation, Looks

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Oxford

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Reading books, studying history - all these things contribute to making us better citizens, too.

  Rebecca Mead

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

  Dan Brown

  Study

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• The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying
  history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a
  feeling of satisfaction.

  Nola Ochs

  College, Class, Feelings

  Source: www.mybestyears.com

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• History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

  Jostein Gaarder

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

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• Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

  Noam Chomsky

  Appreciation, Art, Reading

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• If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, People, Support

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