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“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”

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Author:C.P. Snow

“In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.”

Years Humans Past Brain Knowledge Thirty Thirty Years Human Brain

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

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Author:Marcus Garvey

“History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.”

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Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.”

Ifs Past Moving Knowledge Learning Taken Limits Active Cease Ties About Yourself Accumulation Static Learning Knowledge Learning About Yourself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.”

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Book:Pensees

Source: Pensees