Chinese Proverb Quotes

I think you can learn from history.

The context of history proved invaluable.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Good history is a portal to the past.

We learn from history. That's what it's all about.

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Ere we can forecast the future we must understand the present and bring a just sense of proportion to our review of the history of the past.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

History matters.

History is clarified experience.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.