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  • Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral? -- Raymond Geuss
  • But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. -- Marc Bloch
  • It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. -- Eugene Jarecki
  • Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. -- C. Wright Mills
  • Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming. -- Niger Innis
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  • Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. -- Pierre Salinger
  • 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
  • And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. -- Peter Gay
  • 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
  • Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. -- Jodie Foster
  • The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. -- Nikola Tesla
  • The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. -- Karl Jaspers
  • When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive. -- Chuck D
  • Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. -- Antony Beevor
  • Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age. -- Michael Behe
  • Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  • I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from. -- Matt Barr
  • Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary. -- Jon Porter
  • If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun. -- James Mattis
  • The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. -- George Orwell
  • One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. -- Robert Breault
  • My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more. -- Ai Weiwei
  • 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
  • But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. -- George Lucas
  • God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life. -- Jacob Needleman
  • I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it. -- Malcolm X
  • Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe. -- Julian Jaynes
  • Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence. -- Robert Kirshner
  • The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it. -- Elizabeth Kostova
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