Buckminster Fuller

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

buddha

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.  Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.  Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.  Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.  But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. 

Herbert Butterfield

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Tom Robbins

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Edward Gibbon

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.