Famous Quotes

"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."

Friedrich Schiller 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 Friedrich Schiller

• "Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

• "The strong man is strongest when alone."

• "Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

• "Art is the daughter of freedom."

• "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."