He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behavior.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Fools who don’t respect the past are doomed to repeat it.

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future… There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

I’m an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

The Noblest form of Affection

I believe the momentum that is now building up will give us a chance to change the course of history and head off a pandemic caused by the H5N1 virus.

Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than before.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

I’m so disappointed that I live in the era where technology rule the world and pride is more important than kindness.

We wanted people to gain an understanding of why history is important. Those nine minutes put it in context in a powerful, visual way.

God has given every man an opportunity and a chance to re-write his or her story; it is up to you to use a blunt pen or a ball point . I have chosen a...

We all know Katrina is one of the greatest human tragedies in the nation’s history – but it could also be the greatest cultural catastrophe America has ever experienced. Rebuilding is essential, but it must...

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

It appeared clear to me – partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks – that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve...

I am not a scholar of the past, but I am a lover of the past.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels

Shakespeare ‘never owned a book,’ a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions....

Sing it again!” And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who’s there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday – because of a doctor’s arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a consult, his neglect to get a full and thorough history. Arrogance! We are...

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a...

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one’s inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder… How many people passed through the doors? What did they pray for? How many wars did they wish...

The White House would like to defy history this year.

I’m a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, … The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous...

It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

…I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this...

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating themlike sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing waysreturn might be possible against these homesick inventions, trace the traveller’s alien steps across borders, and in between discover...

Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa...

The man who did the shooting was a civilian, Peter Kakhovsky, a gifted intellectual of extreme purity of motive in whom the conviction of the necessity of regicide burned with a gem-like flame. Determined to...

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons...

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God…. On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded...

It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn’t love to ‘commiserate’ (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people....

Calf-deep in the soothing water I indulge myself in the wishful vision. I am not unaware of what such daydreams signify, dreams of becoming an unthinking savage, of taking the cold road back to the...

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.{Gibbs’s obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}