- “Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.” ― Vladimir Lenin
- “Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” ― Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
- “I’d rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, Memoirs of An Amazon
- Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because ‘What if?’ is the big thing. Kate Atkinson
- “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- “I just don’t see why the past has to matter.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
- Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? Emile M. Cioran
- “In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.” ― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
- Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. Antoine Rivarol
- “An entire mythology is stored within our language.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.” ― James H. Billington
- “Like voices humming along a telegraph wire, Evie thought. That was how to teach it. One could rest one’s hand upon the past, feel the vibrato, one could close one’s eyes, lean low and listen hard. If you were paying attention, one could hear the voices underneath the past. And that was time.” ― Sarah Blake, The Guest Book
- “If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn’t just occur. It’s not like a scientific event. It’s a human event.” ― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. George Santayana
- “Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you have just 100 dollars and He is asking you to execute a 400 million dollar project. Have you reached to the point that you consider going further will make no sense? Have you reached the point where you asked God are you sure you are still with me?I just found myself in that Junction now. Turning back ….to realise I have gone too far for Him to forsake me. Moving forward I heard the voice saying …be still and know that I am your God. Giving up…..Couldn’t find it in my dictionary.Moral of the lesson. God cannot give you an assignment that is equal to your pocket. If it suits your pocket it is definitely not from God. Remember God will not take glory where nothing happen.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours.” ― Richard Siken, Crush
- “Everyone who had set foot in its doors, including Frida, had left a mark, an imprint, in its old walls.” ― Isaac du Toit, The House of Stories
- “The Lost Cause’s Confederacy of gallant leaders and storied victories in defense of home ground retains enormous vitality in recent artworks. “Happy Birthday General Lee” proclaims an advertisement for three prints tied to the 200th anniversary of the general’s birth. Grant receives fewer such gestures, and his cause, which confirmed American nationalism and forced a redefinition of United States citizenship, has been reduced to little more than prints of a battle in Pennsylvania, a college professor who did well as a soldier, and a few thousand men who fought under green flags.” ― Gary W. Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
- “Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “… [T]he other lesson history has taught us – that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion … that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.” ― Dan Brown, Origin
- “Create your own path.Don’t blindly follow the massess… because most of the time the “M” is silent.” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night
- You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. Stephen Ambrose
- “No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “Revisionist historians either introduce new discoveries and theories to challenge outdated belief systems OR they conveniently twist things to suit their own agenda. The former creates hope and progress; the latter creates fear and conflict.” ― Jennifer Ritchie Payette