“The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about… — Jessica Riskin Copy Share Image
History is Witness, Who also made history, the man was simple, but it was extra ordinaryself-confidence, I was also ordinary. But here… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I immediately recognised that Freddy's vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine - or vice-versa, I guess - and yeah, the… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
I feel in moral debt to Messi. He's the best player in our history and I will do my best in order… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.’ Sara looked directly into his eyes. ‘If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I'm done he disappears out the door and comes back with a glass of water. I take it not able to… — Jade Copy Share Image
“We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“One of them confessed to Paul that his tribe had heard stories about the fiercely cannibalistic ways of white men. Paul's first… — Monte Reel Copy Share Image
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away;… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“what’s happening in the world, and how that relates to thousands of years of history and the never-changing nature of mankind.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I think that's what makes Madrid appealing to me. It has a great history and you want to be one of the… — Jude Bellingham Copy Share Image
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview… — Barbara Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Given our historic budget shortfalls, the people of Louisiana stand to benefit most from better roads and other infrastructure. — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A club steeped in nearly 150 years of history is worth more to the local community than any amount of money can express. — Robbie Savage Copy Share Image
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented… — Moshe Sharett Copy Share Image
“We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“Everything which has been done so far in human history has been able to be done because all were possible!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image