Character Quote by Donald Creighton

The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or the circumstances…

— Joe Morton

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

— Booker T. Washington

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

— Donald Creighton

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization…

— Anonymous

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest.

— Anthony Storr

History is a record of exploded ideas.

— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

— Jawaharlal Nehru

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell