Jacob Burckhardt
“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)
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“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”
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“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”
– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC