All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Trying to plan for the future without knowing the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.” — David Boorstin Copy Share Image
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you know your history, you have a better vision of where you're going. And, when you have that, there's no stopping… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I think that’s why I love to read. I’ll read almost anything—mystery, suspense, slice of life—but what I really love is romance.… — S.T. Prussing Copy Share Image
Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
There is no bad or good in this world, only choices. History taught us wrong about duality. We are one, we are… — Janet Peave Copy Share Image
I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that -… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction,… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Of course I want to be compared to one of the greatest shortstops in the history of the game. — Carlos Correa Copy Share Image
More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers. — Joe Murray Copy Share Image
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
“STORY” is more than half of the word “HISTORY”. And that’s no accident.” — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.” — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
