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History is the study of the world's crime
— Voltaire
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
— Agnes Repplier
History is the study of the abuse of power.
— Marty Rubin
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
— Charles Francis Adams Jr.
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
— John Maynard Keynes
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
— Nancy Pickard
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
— John Steinbeck
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
— Marie Brennan
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.
— Michael E. DeBakey
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
— Winston S. Churchill
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
— Madame De Stael
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
— George McGovern
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— W. H. Auden
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
— Jill Lepore
History is really a study of the future, not the past.
— Arundhati Roy
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
— Johan Huizinga
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
— Henry Adams
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
— Thomas Merton
If westerners cannot legitimately study the history of Africa or the Middle East, then only fish can study marine biology.
— Bernard Lewis
Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.
— Bertrand Russell
The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
— Jean Bodin
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
— A.J.P. Taylor
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
— John Buchan
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
— Henri Poincare
We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.
— Adolf Von Harnack
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
— Adrian Rogers
It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.
— Lucien Febvre
