Famous (and Not So Famous) Quotes

"Discernment is the ability to see things for what they really are and not for what you want them to be." -- Unknown

"Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather, it is telling the difference between right and almost right." -- Charles Spurgeon

"By all means, let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." -- Richard Dawkins
 
"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice." -- Mark Twain

"History is a myth that men agree to believe." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is the distillation of rumour." -- Thomas Carlyle

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." -- George Santayana

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." -- L.P. Hartley

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can." -- Samuel Butler
 
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