Sense of History Quotes

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

I think a sense of history and perspective for our young people today is essential.

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Donald Trump, perhaps the least historically minded man ever to reach the pinnacle of power, has fallen under the spell of what (and who) has come before. What's revealing about a President's sense of history is less about the history itself than about what that President's perspective on the history tells us about him.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.