Events Quote by Ambrose Bierce

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

— John Barth

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“He shouted out like a drill sergeant, " Men, are we having fun yet? "No sir!" the vets cried out. " Men , are…

— Joan Bauer

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

— Salman Rushdie

“India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history—only an account of itself.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things…

— Ayn Rand

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

— Frank Knight

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

— Albert Einstein

Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only…

— H. L. Mencken

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

— Warren Buffett

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,…

— Joseph Goebbels