History Quote by Frank Herbert

“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress…

— Aberjhani

“time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing…

— Oscar Wilde

“He was in control of every aspect of his profession and he deferred to no one. In his private life, however, he was clueless.”

— Robert Bryndza

“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go.…

— Deanna Raybourn

“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Perhaps you face something that is tempting you to take a more leisurely path through life, when an invitation to get up and climb…

— Paul Manwaring

“had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.”

— E.M. Forster

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow