“It is nonsense to say that generalization is foreign to history; history thrives on generalizations.”
Chap. 3 : History, Science and Morality
What is History? (1961)
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“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history.”
Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
Context: We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
“A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.”
Conversation with Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (20 November 1816), Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, v. 4, p. 251 http://books.google.com/books?id=945jAAAAMAAJ&vq=%22fable%20agreed%20upon%22&pg=PA251. However, the phrase predates Napoleon. Helvétius attributes it to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, De l'esprit (1758), p. 443 http://books.google.com/books?id=N7g8AAAAcAAJ&vq=%22fable%20convenue%22&pg=RA1-PA443
“The Case for a Dynamic Economy,” Hoover Daily Report (Sept. 22, 2003)
Cited in: Eric Shiraev (2010) A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective. p. 314
A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Variant: Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and then the total — all of these acts — will be written in the history of this generation.