"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard."

History, Money, Man, Will

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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

"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

"The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?"

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

History, Memory, Generations, Forgetting

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

People, Trouble, Wishes

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

Virtue, Hatred, May, Vice

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."

Art, Science, Philosophy

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

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"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Philosophy

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."

Law, Laws, Man, Needs

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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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near."

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."