Great Minds of History

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

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

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman

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

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

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

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

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training. - Anna Freud

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

The beginning of leadership is a battle for the hearts and minds of men. - Bernard L Montgomery

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

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

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

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. - Ravi Zacharias

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth

What is the most important key to success? Networking - two minds are better than one. - David Foster

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns

In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. - Robert A. Heinlein

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

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis

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

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

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

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart

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

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

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

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

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

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 has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds. - Plato

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

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. - Zig Ziglar

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