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If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. — Jeff Hawkins

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. — David Hume

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence. — A.E. Samaan

History teaches us every day; our understanding is the matter! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. — C. Wright Mills

It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together. — Wendy Percival

Do not mistake the history you have shared for the slightest understanding of what our marriage is, or how insignificant you are in comparison. — Frank Underwood

History had no lessons or rules to offer the student, it could only broaden his understanding and strengthen his critical judgment. — Carl Von Clausewitz

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. — Marc Bloch

Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. — Pierre Salinger

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. — Pittacus Lore

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. — George Lucas

To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human. — Steven Mithen

Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of. — Pat Brown

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history. — Sandy Tolan

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

He stared at me with bitter understanding.
We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history. — Lisa Kleypas

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki

If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston — Richard Puz

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. — Meghan O'Rourke

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell

We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present — E.H. Carr

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun. — James Mattis

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming. — Niger Innis

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present. — Kenneth M. Stampp

Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust. — A.E. Samaan

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. — Robert Breault

At her tender age she was incapable of understanding such a history, — Christine Feehan

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. — Shannon L. Alder

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