Claude Bowers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.
-- Claude Bowers

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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

Claude Bowers famous quotes

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