History Quotes

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

History develops, art stands still.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.