“Statistics are history, and we gather them so that we can learn from history.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“History is supposed to teach us how to deal with the present and future, but it doesn't do that if we look at it merely as a record of events.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“It is said of great Empires, That the best way to preserve them from decay, is to bring them back to the first Principles, and Arts, on which they did begin.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive. We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write whole Sentences, or to…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“I don’t think it makes sense to destroy them. Preserve them, study them instead.”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the lates…”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“At these meetings, which were about the year 1655, divers experiments were suggested, discoursed, and tried with various successes, though no other account was taken of them but what particular persons perhaps did for the help of their own memories; so that many excellent things have been lost.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“When people say 'never again' they don't mean 'we must prevent the literal resurrection of Hitler.' They mean "watch for similar circumstances"”— Katie Mack, twitter.com
“There is no shoe school, so where do you recruit people for a company that develops and markets running shoes? The running track… We and the consumer were one and the same.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“The history of mankind proves that at some point the people have their innings, and I think we’re about to come up to bat now. I think we can make it if we live and let live. And love one another—I mean really love.”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“Archaeologists have harnessed sophisticated technology to reveal lost cities and thousands of ancient structures deep in the Guatemalan jungle, confirming that the Maya civilization was much larger than previously thought.”— James Rogers, msn.com
“All stories begun and enacted by men unfold their true meaning only when they have come to their end.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“Science writers don't call themselves scientists, which is pragmatic and wise, and I do strongly believe the same goes with history. If you write about history but lack training, so what, keep fighting the good fight, but do call yourself a history writer.”— Alexis Coe, twitter.com
“Isn’t it great to live in the 21st century? Where deleting history has become more important than making it.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier…”— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org