Posts Tagged ‘History’
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future….
Ursala Lequin
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Victor Hugo
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson