Gilbert Highet Quotes

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

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

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

I think you can learn from history.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

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

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

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

I don't think you learn specific lessons from history, but you do learn proportion.

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.

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

History is clarified experience.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

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

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

History after all is the true poetry.