“Four sentences summarizing the lessons of History”

—  Charles A. Beard

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Four sentences summarizing the lessons of History" by Charles A. Beard?
Charles A. Beard photo
Charles A. Beard 13
American historian 1874–1948

Related quotes

Ren Zhengfei photo

“I can summarize the painful lesson in one sentence: We must not slack off or allow mediocrity, and we must remain dedicated and inspire passion throughout the organization.”

Ren Zhengfei (1944) Chinese businessman

Interview with CNBC (October 4, 2019)

Anthony Doerr photo

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Felix Frankfurter photo

“Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.”

Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge

Phelps Dodge Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board, 313 U.S. 177, 185-186 (1941).
Judicial opinions

Aldous Huxley photo

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: " A Case of Voluntary Ignorance http://www.christiebooks.com/ChristieBooksWP/2013/11/a-case-of-voluntary-ignorance-by-aldous-huxley/" in Collected Essays (1959)

Richard Rodríguez photo

“The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Thus with one sentence I can summarize my academic career. It will be harder to summarize what sort of life connects the boy to the man.”

Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)

Steven Erikson photo

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”

Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates

Source: Deadhouse Gates

“Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.”

Len Deighton book An Expensive Place to Die

An Expensive Place to Die, Jonathan Cape (1967) Ch. 39

James A. Garfield photo

“The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.”

James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)

Letter to Professor Demmon (16 December 1871), in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 424 http://books.google.com/books?id=vCAFAAAAYAAJ
1870s

“The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.”

Max Lerner (1902–1992) American journalist and educator

It Is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy http://books.google.com/books?id=szVGoBq-dkEC&q=%22actually+The+so-called+lessons+of+history+are+for+the+most+part+the+rationalizations+of+the+victors+history+is+written+by+the+survivors%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage (1939)

Related topics