Famous Quotes

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."

Paul Valery 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 Paul Valery

• "God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."

• "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

• "Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."

• "Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."

• "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."