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  • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.
  • When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.

    Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.
  • If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

    War   People   Support  
  • As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

    Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
  • Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

    'Listener' 6 June 1963
  • The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.

    Source: www.mybestyears.com
  • One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

  • Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Reading books, studying history - all these things contribute to making us better citizens, too.

    Mistake   Book   Reading  
    "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.
  • Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

    James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press
  • I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

  • To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

    Faith   Mean   Order  
    Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan
  • Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

  • History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  • Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

    Lying   History   Secret  
    "Churchill By Himself".
  • History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

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