Assessment Quote by Edward de Bono

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

— Dean Rusk

Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

— Edmund Leach

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

— Henry Giroux

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

— Paul Broca

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

— Lord Acton

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

— Tony Robbins

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or…

— Richard Holbrooke

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself…

— Robert Nozick