Ludwig von Mises Quotes

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

One should live with history round one.

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

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

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.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.

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

I think you can learn from history.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

I write to learn the flow of history.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.