Be good Quote by Venerable Bede

“If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records evil of…

— Bede

“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to look through…

— Jane Adams

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are…

— Simon Conway Morris

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

— Ben Sasse

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.

— Ibn Ata Allah

“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or…

— M. Guizot

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

“Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.”

— Thomas Hobbes