George W. Bush Quotes

History is clarified experience.

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

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

I think you can learn from history.

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

The context of history proved invaluable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

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

Good history is a portal to the past.

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.

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

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

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.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?