Famous Quotes

"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"

Polly Toynbee 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 Polly Toynbee

• "People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."

• "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

• "But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

• "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."

• "Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."