History Quote by Francis Bacon Sr Download Open image “History makes people wise.” — Francis Bacon Sr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
