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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. — Terence McKenna

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone

Of that time, there is still much we do not know. — Tom Bissell

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed. — Stephenie Meyer

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — Evelyn Fox Keller

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know. — Graham King

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you? — Mary Pipher

History, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere. — Robert Jackson Bennett

We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity — Natasha Tsakos

After all, history proved that eventually, everyone leaves me. Why would you be any different?
Now I know that you were.
Are. — Leisa Rayven

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite. — Lucian Of Samosata

This isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know? — Sarah Dessen

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. — Vik Muniz

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not. — Philip Roth

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time. — John Petrucci

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet. — Julian Assange

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. — Loretta Lynn

We have history, you and I. You just don't know it yet. — Sarah Addison Allen

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism. — John Diefenbaker

You have to know the past to understand the present. — Carl Sagan

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ... — Franz Kafka

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people. — Joel Silver

You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history. — Chris Dietzel

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. — George Eliot

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war. — Frederic Raphael

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. — Maya Angelou

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes, — Gerard Butler

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. — Edmund Burke

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson

If you had your time all over again ... ? She was keen to know.
You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do. — Maeve Binchy

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone. — George W. Bush

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. — F. Sionil Jose

We have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life
or change the whole world. — Jack Gantos

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift — Sunday Adelaja

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am. — Bob Marley

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors. — Simon Wiesenthal

Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you. — Megan Smith

Don't be deceived into believing you know what time it is. Your watch does not tell you the time; it tells you the history of time. — Ray Noyes

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life. — Thomas Schlamme

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

to know your past is to know your future. Where lies the strength of the stem and the fruits of the branches when the roots are rotten? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together. — Nipsey Hussle

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about! — Barbara Ann Mojica

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too. — Francine Pascal

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. — Edmund Burke

The only history that matters is the history we know. — Ezra Pound

Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most beautiful city in the history of earth! — Donna Tartt

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late. — Kenneth Roberts

These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. — Aldous Huxley

I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor. — Carlton Cuse

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from. — Sara Sheridan

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done. — Bill Veeck

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything. — Pippa Evans

I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72. — Theresa Sjoquist

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making. — Joseph J. Ellis

Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book. — Brian Keene

If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo. — Meat Loaf

I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible. — Dan Shechtman

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. — Jane Yolen

Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough. — Cassandra Clare

Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become. — Cynthia A. Patterson

The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs. — Charles De Gaulle

But whom could I resent?...the wheel of history turned by those war- and peacemakers whom I did not know? — Uyen Nicole Duong

It is only when people don't know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic. — Nikita Khrushchev

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel. — Walter M. Fitch

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself. — Thomas Carlyle

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero