Great Minds of History

Little things affect little minds. - Benjamin Disraeli

Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

Epochodor: The smell of history found at museums - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

Those who set their minds on virtue will do no evil. - Chinese proverb

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open. - Thomas Dewar

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel

History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. - Leo Tolstoy

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds. - Wayne Dyer

People with closed minds should try and be more closed-mouthed. - Unknown

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. - William Adams

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. - Peter Drucker

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Negotiate: To seek a meeting of the minds without the knocking together of heads - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds. - Peter Gabriel

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the minds and spirit. - David Jeremiah

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. - Will Durant

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. - Horace

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

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 Frost

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

If we don't know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking

Things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now? - Paul Harvey