Fancy Quote by David Hume

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a…

— Benjamin Franklin

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

— Emanuel Lasker

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

— Joseph Butler

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

— Margaret MacMillan

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when…

— Anonymous

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

— Tom Peters

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

— W. Clement Stone

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other,…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

— Gael Garcia Bernal