The greatest obstacle to progress is the refusal to learn fr... - Giovanni Vico

"The greatest obstacle to progress is the refusal to learn from the past."

Giovanni Vico History

Philosopher Historian Italian 1668–1744

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"Verum ipsum factum"

"We truly know only what we make"

"The true is convertible with the made"

"History is philosophy teaching by examples"

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."