- “Do you want to acquire God’s own wisdom? Relate with the Holy Spirit. Be a seeker of divine guidance by the Holy Spirit. You can’t be a man or woman of solution without God.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- History passes the final judgment. Sidney Poitier
- The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. Winston Churchill
- “People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one’s inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.” ― Aporva Kala, Life… Love… Kumbh…
- “I just don’t see why the past has to matter.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
- “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
- “[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of Sais […] To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old. On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world-about Phoroneus, who is called “the first man,” and about Niobe; and after the Deluge, of the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened. Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age.” ― Plato, Timaeus and Critias
- “Sometimes when you get older—and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they’re a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they’re not true—why, then you get offended.” ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
- “Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s prospect. As an anarch, I am determined to go along with nothing, ultimately take nothing seriously – at least not nihilistically, but rather as a border guard in no man’s land, who sharpens his eyes and ears between the tides.” ― Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. Lord Acton
- “In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.” ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
- “The closer we try to get to God, the more we will hate to sin in our own lives, the more we are saddened by the thoughts that runs through our minds. I also think that the more we draw closer to God, the more God will honour us and will open doors for the right things to happen in our life.” ― Patience Johnson
- We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. George Santayana
- “Live long enough to hear your story being told and you’ll realize why every man must tell his own story.” ― James Arita Mogeni Omwenga
- “you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History.” ― Robert Penn Warren
- We learn from history that we don’t learn from history! Desmond Tutu
- History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. George Santayana
- “Every time you go in, it’s like starting over. You don’t know how you did the other records. You’re learning all over. It’s some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.” ― Beck
- “I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.” ― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
- “Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” ― Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening
- “Faced with this endless British troublemaking, Napoleon was, in Bonapartist French eyes, like a kung fu master, meditating peacefully on his prayer mat about progress and democracy while a gang of irritating English boys threw acorns at him, finally forcing him to get up and give them a slap.” ― Stephen Clarke, How the French Won Waterloo – or Think They Did
- “Learning the truth has become my life’s love.” ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
- “I have always lived in a world in which I’m just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I’m just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.”[Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe, Locus Magazine, September 1998]” ― Sheri S. Tepper
- The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. Max Lerner
- “The only principle of Success in Life :”You must be present to win.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
- “There’s no more education, no more culture – if culture depends on a commonly understood history – and perhaps no more middle class in the United States. There’s War.” ― Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology
- “To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Martin Luther
- “In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.” ― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1