#history

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#anymore #because #even #geography #history

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#author #become #books #could #down

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#interpretation #past #significance #us

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#important #learn #lessons #men #most

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

— Gwen Ifill

#grasp #history #need

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #memory #recall #humor

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#cinema #craziest #feet #film #floating

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#great #history #must #philosophy #the history of

History can never be covered up. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#history #never #up

Whole generations have forgotten history. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#generations #history #whole