Ask for some famous aphorisms about the importance of history.

● Only biographies are true history.

-Carlyle (England) News Review

● History is the propaganda of winners.

-Toynbee (England) On Toynbee

● The specific history of mankind, if any,

must be the history of all people,

and

must be the history of all human hopes, struggles and sufferings.

-Pop (England) Open Society and Its Enemies

● Just as philosophy is the study of others' misunderstandings, history is the study of others' mistakes.

-Philip Goodlear (English) "Bit-on and Superman"

● History is the knowledge of human past.

-Henry Irenee Malu (France) History is like knowledge

● History is the life of the dead reconstructed by the living and for the living.

-raymond aron (France) Philosophy of History

● What is history? It is the echo of the past to the future and the reflection of the future to the past.

-Hugo (France) "The Smiling Man"