A Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine
History teaches everything, even the future.
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History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.
Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.
If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.
I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.
I try to understand other people's viewpoints on things and be better in the future. I think if you look at my history as a baseball player, my history on social media and my history as a person, for those who know me well, they know that I apply that process to everything that I do.
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly. What it really teaches you is that things have not always been the same, and they don't have to be the way they are.
If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.
Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.
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