Beliefs Quote by David Lawrence Dewey

“Human nature in time is engraved in history.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A grain of sand you, trample upon has a deeper significance than a series of lectures by your verbal philosopher whom you respect. It…

— Kaiten Nukariya

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use…

— Fridtjof Nansen

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a…

— Eric Hoffer

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction…

— Erich Fromm

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and…

— Helen Keller

Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark,…

— Octavio Paz

Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its…

— David Hume

“store up knowledge. Contrivance followed contrivance, each making it possible for a man to do more. Always down the lengthening record, save for a…

— H.G. Wells

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been…

— Ansel Adams

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the…

— Thomas Jefferson