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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back." Ralph Waldo Emerson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten." Euripides 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are all citizens of history." Clifton Paul Fadiman 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way." Edna Ferber 3.9091 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this." Gustave Flaubert 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times." Gustave Flaubert 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." Bertie Forbes 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past." (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)" Gerald R. Ford 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave." Edward Morgan Forster Rate this Quote
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life." Anatole France 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life." Anatole France 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I am responsible only to God and history." Francisco "El Caudillo" Franco 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom." Milton Friedman 4.6250 average rating Rate this Quote
"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." Erich Fromm Rate this Quote
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power." Robert Lee Frost 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death." Robert 4.7667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History never looks like History when you are living through it." John W(illiam) Gardner 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man." Jean Genet 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History … is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Edward Gibbon 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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