History Quotes - Page 39

• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Fate, Destiny, People

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• It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, Energy

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• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Farewell

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Men, Choices

  Address at the Hunt Armory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 09, 1956.

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• The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Jobs, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.331, Best Books on

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• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, Silence

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

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• If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Piano, Hell, Ifs

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• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Fathers Day, Future

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Love, Men, Age

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• Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Past, Method

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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• Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Philosophy, Reality

  1908 Orthodoxy, ch.3.

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• When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928) ch. 6

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• Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Careers, Genius, Fool

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Doors, Scene, Slam

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• Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

  Tacitus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

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• The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Believe, Army

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 2

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• The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lasts, Infinity, Logic

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• All great ideas are dangerous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.122, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

  Michael Crichton

  Life, Family, Tree

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Past, Destroyed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lakes, Sea, Feelings

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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