Appreciation of History Quotes

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

I've changed my whole angle for dance. I'm moving towards moving back rather than hanging out with my peers. I'm reaching back to older dudes for a second.

All states need to hallow themselves with the dignity of the past.

Every time I walk through the White House gates, if you don't stop and take it in and recognize that you are a witness to history, it's time for you, frankly, to get a new job.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn't exist the way that we do with emotions and urges and drives.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.

One thing I do find in the "lost" generation or something is a kind of abhorrence of history, you know, like it's boring, dumb, or just not interesting. I think it's terribly interesting if you can get your head around how it relates to where you're standing right here and now.

I stand on the shoulders of giants.

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.