This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom — we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.
The Author of this Quote
![Yuval Noah Harari](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.heroic.us%2Fauthors%2Fheadshots%2Fyuval-noah-harari.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Author
Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem