Saturday, 19 April 2008

The Importance of Our History

A few quotes outline the perception of great minds towards the notion of history and recorded knowledge:

To be ignorant
of what occurred before
you were born
is to remain always a child.

For what is the worth
of human life,
unless it is woven into
the life of our ancestors
by the records of history?

-Cicero

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

-Joseph Addison

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