Accounts Quote by Thomas Browne

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

— Walter Lippmann

Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is…

— Anonymous

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their…

— Henry David Thoreau

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men…

— Thomas Carlyle

Man is remembered by his deeds.

— Knute Nelson

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

— Gore Vidal

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the…

— Geoffrey Elton

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep…

— Anthony Burgess

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the…

— Eric Hobsbawm