Fitness Quote by Gregory Benford

History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only…

— Edward Hallett Carr

Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past…

— Gore Vidal

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

— Edward Said

“For we Germans are snoring, buried in sleep and wine, and we are destitute of leaders who could measure up in wisdom, strategy, and…

— Martin Luther

German diligence is actually endurance.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Learn from the past, to maximize the present, in preparation for the future. Hadji VanDerVeer”

— Hadji VanderVeer

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

— Patti Davis

I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar years.

— Noam Chomsky

“Study the Past to Understand Today”

— Cynthia Belmer

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

— Stephen Colbert

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

— Marcus Tullius Cicero