Thomas Sowell Quotes

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.

History is my biggest teacher.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

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.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

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

I think you can learn from history.

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.

Those of our people who do not study history can be duped into believing anything.

Americans today don’t know history—even the smart ones who went to Ivy League schools.

History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

History some truths contains, which well may serve for lessons.

Histories make men wise.

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.