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title: "4 Intellectual-history Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-lindberg/we-are-like-dwarfs-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-thanks-to-them/)

[Carter Lindberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-lindberg/)

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> [“Humankind doesn’t have a genuine intellectual memory. They don’t need the Truth. They don’t want to know the Truth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-neil-fleischer/humankind-doesn-t-have-a-genuine-intellectual-memory-they-don-t-need/)

[Robert Neil Fleischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-neil-fleischer/)

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> [“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/intellectual-progress-usually-occurs-through-sheer-abandonment-of/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aberjhani/history-too-has-a-penchant-for-giving-birth-to-itself-over-and-over/)

[Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aberjhani/)

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