Famous quotes containing the words history and/or textbooks:
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that “each case be individualized.” If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)