History Quote by James Martineau

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

— James Martineau

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

— Anonymous

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

— Gustave Flaubert

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

— Maria Montessori

“In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any…

— Peter Marshall

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…

— Lillian Hellman

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

— Edmund Morris

The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die;…

— Polybius

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a…

— F. L. Lucas