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

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau

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

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin