Ambition Quote by Edmund Burke

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and…

— Edmund Burke

“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit that the…

— Hermann Hesse

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes

— Voltaire

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory…

— Salman Rushdie

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

“History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way…

— J. R. Vincent