George F. Kennan Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

  George F. Kennan

  People, Generations, Records

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

• There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

  George F. Kennan

  Civilization, Views, Adoption

  "Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy". Book by Anders Stephanson, p. 160, 1989.

• Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

  George F. Kennan

  Writing, Historical, Endurance

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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