For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly read more
History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
