Naomie Harris Quotes

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.

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

A consciousness of history is one of the key factors that distinguishes us from other animals.

The knowledge of past events... forms a main difference between brutes and rational creatures

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

There is nothing more dangerous than mislearning the lessons of history.

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.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.

When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.

I don't view myself as a particularly intelligent people, but I do have one ability that I've demonstrated over and over again, that's helped me see things that other people for whatever reason have not seen. That's that most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. I guess it could be stated that most people only hear the music, not the lyrics of human events.

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.

I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that's kind of where we are.

I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

Don't think of people in the mass. That gives you a blurred view.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.