History Quotes · Page 26

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are…

— James A. Michener

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

— Anonymous

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air…

— Saeb Erekat

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

“To correct a natural indifference, I was placed halfway between poverty and the sun. Poverty kept me from thinking all was well…

— Albert Camus

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called…

— Thomas Sowell

“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to…

— Laura Wheldon

“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote,…

— Stephen M. Ward

“Their first coach was James Naismith, who invented the sport of basketball. (He is less known for being the only Kansas coach…

— John Calipari

We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record,…

— Carter G. Woodson

There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders…

— Libba Bray

“Clarence Darrow, one of history's greatest lawyers, once noted "There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court." Perhaps…

— Emily Thorne

There's definitely been some looks throughout history on the golf course that would make people say, 'woah, what's this guy wearing?!' if…

— Justin Rose

The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of…

— John Piper

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather…

— Rebecca Solnit

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which…

— Philip Yancey

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

— Ray Bradbury

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world…

— Albert Schweitzer

What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is…

— Yance Ford

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good…

— David Hume

Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of…

— Mitch Albom

The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery…

— Ellen Ullman

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…

— Milan Kundera

“Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The…

— Scott M. Morris