"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."

History, Humanity, Light, Observation

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"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

History, Repetition, Lesson, Past

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

History, Moon, Change, Truth

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Echo, Future, Past

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

History, Memory, Identity, Crime

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

History, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

History, Regret, Learning, Mistake

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept, Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare, To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare, The shaft we raise to them and thee."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

History, Memory, Heroes, Nature

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"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."

History, Humanity, Light, Observation

"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."

Patience, Difficulties

"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."

Experience, Schools, Wrong

"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."

People, Effort

"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."

God, People, Responsibility, World

"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."

Spirit, World

"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."

Knowledge, Difficulties, Philosophy

"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."

Change, Ideas, Thinking

"Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another."

Criticism, Agitation, Driving, Eye

"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."

War, Depression, World