“If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.”
Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 90.
Quotes from book
A Little History of the World
A Little History of the World is a history book by Ernst Gombrich. It was written in 1935 in Vienna, Austria, when Gombrich was 26 years old. He was rewriting it for English readers when he died in 2001, at 92, in London. Gombrich insisted that only he translate the book into English. After his death, the translation was completed by Caroline Mustill, an assistant to Gombrich from 1995 until his death, and his granddaughter Leonie Gombrich. It was published in 2005 by Yale University Press.
William was a little Italian prince who lived four hundred years ago.
Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 2.
Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 276.
