Best past & errors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.”

Made Age Earth Past Creatures Regard Errors Library Former Preserves Shelves Succession Lively Living Creatures

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.”

Firsts Looks Littles Art Stills War Facts Past Remember Fall Century Objects Easier Errors Decades Inevitable Survived Adore Great Art Nazism Rise And Fall Eruption War Of 1812

Author:Michael Cunningham

“It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".”

May Said Past Science Century Serious Errors Professors Historian 18th Century

Author:D. V. Ager

“Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”

Ifs Knows Needs Lasts Past Pleasure Errors Each Day Critique

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton

“There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.”

Way Inspirational Art Past Literature Risk Errors Excellent Predictions

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”

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Author:Dale E. Turner

“So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!”

Age Past Easy Difficult Perspective Errors Acknowledge

Author:Lydia M. Child

“It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.”

Trying Stills Hands Age Past Spirit Literature Process Imagination Errors Busy Various Graves Clock Complexity Historian Observing Measuring

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.”

Past Individual Nations Ability Study Victory Foundation Lays Errors Empowering

Author:Aberjhani

“Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.”

Giving Past Errors Nostalgia Manifest Respectability Credence

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

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