Doc Rivers Quotes

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

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.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

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 think you can learn from history.

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

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Most of us get our history through story.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

History is an instrument of the most genuine patriotic spirit

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

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

History after all is the true poetry.

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.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.