Quotes & Sayings About The Importance Of Knowing Your History

Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her. — J. Lynn

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

To be in love at my age would mean not to have learnt anything at all. — Alice Walsh

When you cease to dream, you cease to hope and you cease to grow. — Debasish Mridha

You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart. — Dixie Waters

A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way. — Gottlob Frege

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. — Ambrose Bierce

Orientalism is never far from what Denys Hay has called the idea of Europe,3 a collective notion identifying "us" Europeans as against all "those" non-Europeans, and indeed it can be argued that the major component in European culture is precisely what made that culture hegemonic both in and outside Europe: the idea of European identity as a superior one in comparison with all the non-European peoples and cultures. There is in addition the hegemony of European ideas about the Orient, themselves reiterating European superiority over Oriental backwardness, usually overriding the possibility that a more independent, or more skeptical, thinker might have had different views on the matter. — Edward W. Said

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you. — Dick Van Dyke

A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both. — Edith Wharton

'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland. — Laura Donnelly

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. — Thomas A. Edison

If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity — Aesop