Famous Historical Quote
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Allen, Woody
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Bacon, Francis
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Bacon, Francis
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Beerbohm, Sir Max
An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Bierce, Ambrose
Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
Bierce, Ambrose
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Bismarck, Otto Von
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
Burke, Edmund
The Thames is liquid history.
Burns, John
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Butler, Samuel
History is the devil's scripture.
Byron, Lord
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
Byron, Lord
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Allen, Woody
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Bacon, Francis
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Bacon, Francis
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Beerbohm, Sir Max
An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Bierce, Ambrose
Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
Bierce, Ambrose
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Bismarck, Otto Von
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
Burke, Edmund
The Thames is liquid history.
Burns, John
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Butler, Samuel
History is the devil's scripture.
Byron, Lord
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
Byron, Lord
Good bye, proud world! I’m going home, Thou art not my friend, I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
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