Posts Tagged ‘History’
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
William James "Will" Durant
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
William James "Will" Durant
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.
William James "Will" Durant
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William Edgar Borah
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne W(alter) Dyer
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn’t know history. He don’t know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
Will Rogers
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Sibert Cather