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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

— Michael Ignatieff

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

— Camilo Jose Cela

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

— Charles Kingsley

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

— Aldous Huxley

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

— T. S. Eliot

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.

— Stef Wertheimer

✗Opposing Perspectives

Those who care, teach. Those who love, teach. Those who can, teach.

— Monica Johnson