History Quote by Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Download Open image ““(28) “Doctrine draws on the lessons of history”” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an interpretation of history, which suits their interest and benefit” — Kandathil Sebastian Copy Share Image
“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The lesson of history is that we don't learn the lessons of history.” — Thomas G. Donlan Copy Share Image
“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit that the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“The one lesson to be learned is the necessity for every officer to cultivate belief in his own judgment, so as not to be… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“Many of the more ghastly and idiotic aspects of the Great War were made possible by the coincidence of mass-production and the social religion… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“The literal meaning of ‘doctrine’ is “what is taught within a group as its corporate beliefs, principles or faith”52 – although “what is learnt… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“(20) There is an inverse law between robust doctrine and the need for signalling.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“that (11) Purveyors of technical systems will seek to define performance criteria and trials conditions.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“By the close of the Victorian age Britain’s officer classes were increasingly the inheritors, rather than the winners, of empire.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“can therefore attribute the many reporting failures at Jutland to a cocktail of factors, including: (a) lack of initiative, and ‘seniority knows best’; (b)… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“Some of them are blinding glimpses of the obvious (BGOs), several overlap, and I make no claims of discovery. The fundamental proposition – and… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“My comments are directed at the system which was responsible for their poor performance, not at the officers concerned. I do not recall ever… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“(19) Signalling promotes the centralisation of authority.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“Signals’ prioritising mechanisms become dislocated in times of overload.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
