Education Quote by Edwin Yoder

“History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone.…

— Karel Čapek

“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and…

— David McCullough

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we…

— Danail Hristov

“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of…

— John Fea

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

“The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.”

— Richard Kluger

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

“History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.”

— Keith Thompson