20th century Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

— Eamon de Valera

It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth

— Woody Hayes

Man in his effort to pray and receive guidance actually enhances his separation from who he really is and what he is reaching for.…

— Esther Hicks

The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way.

— David Starkey

A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim…

— Tariq Ali

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest…

— Gavin Friday

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And…

— Dick Morris

“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt…

— Leo Tolstoy

Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude,…

— Napoleon Hill

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we…

— Eric Hoffer