Top 13 Study History Quotes

Yes, we’ve seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling – baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.

When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing ‘Arcadia,’ and I suddenly thought, ‘It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.’ It didn’t quite feel right.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

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.

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

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

We can’t let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.