History Study Quotes

History is not only the record of the past, but also the discipline of investigating and interpreting the past. The study of history develops habits of critical thinking and effective writing, as well as cultivates the careful analysis of various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence.

I write to learn the flow of history.

The public, as opposed to the profession, has little interest. Historiography—the study of history and its processes—is dull stuff.

If the study of history teaches anything, it teaches us the limitations of life.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

… it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

What history is about is human beings.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

I study history. I study the game. I study the NBA and the team I'm working for very, very closely.

The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be justly described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.