C. S. Lewis Quotes

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

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.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

The study of history is in the truest sense an education, and a training for political life.

The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.

We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.