Famous Quotes

"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

Albert Camus on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

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

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Albert Camus

• "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

• "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

• "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

• "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

• "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."