Thucydides Quotes (4 quotes)
Παιδεία ἄρα ἐδτὶν ἡ ἔντευξις τῶν ἠθῶν. τοῦτο καὶ Θουκυδίδης ἔοικε λέγειν περὶ ἳστορίας λέγων· ὄτι καὶ ἱστορία φιλοσοφία ἐστὶν ἐκ παραδειγμάτων.
Education should be the cultivation of character, just as Thucydides (1, 22) used to say of history, that it was philosophy teaching by examples.
Education should be the cultivation of character, just as Thucydides (1, 22) used to say of history, that it was philosophy teaching by examples.
In Ars Rhetorica, XI, 2, 212, (Tauchnitz edition). As quoted in William Francis Henry King (ed.), Classical and Foreign Quotations: A Polyglot Manual of Historical and Literary Sayings, Noted Passages in Poetry and Prose, Phrases, Proverbs, and Bons Mots (3rd ed., 1904), 255.
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier.
From Letter to John Adams, (21 Jan 1812). Collected in J. Jefferson Looney (ed.), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Vol. 4. (2007), 429.
I have read somewhere or other, — in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, — that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
In On the Study and Use of History, Letter 2. As cited in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (1875, 10th ed., 1919), 304. Dionysius was quoting Thucydides.
Thucydides noted, presciently, as it turned out, that if Sparta and Athens were reduced to ruins, no one would believe that the two were comparable civilizations, for Sparta did not build great monuments. I would go further—Sparta did not fund great plays, it did not nourish great philosophy or science. Athens did. And so to us, Greece is Athens, and Sparta is a strange anomaly, an afterthought in history. That’s what happens when you stop funding the arts, humanities and sciences. History forgets you.
From @medievalhistory as quoted on webpage titled Whewell’s Gazette (22 Mar 2017), Year 3, Vol. #31, on Wordpress site of whewellsghost.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
