Top 25 History Quotes of 1632 - Page 25

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Beatrice Webb

Running, Ego, Personal History

Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Barbara Tuchman

Book, Civilization, Literature History

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Alice Walker

Art, Black History, Earth

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

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Wole Soyinka

Struggle, Reading, Black History

FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Apr 09, 2015

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

Winston Churchill

Men, History, Working Man

Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

Time, Past, History

'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers

History, Reputation, Mona Lisa

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom, Government, History

Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.82

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Robert Conquest

History, Conquest, Subjects

"Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

Rick Riordan

Ancient, Poseidon, Ancient History

It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.

Reginald Ray

Inspiration, Thinking, History

Reginald A. Ray (2008). “Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body”, p.334, Sounds True

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

Ray Charles

Justice, Black History, Like You

Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.200, Da Capo Press

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, History, Historical

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

Peter Handke

Country, Who I Am, History

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

Oswald Spengler

Reality, History, Imagination

Oswald Spengler (1961). “Form and actuality”