Famous Quotes

"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."

Thomas Huxley 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 Thomas Huxley

• "In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them."

• "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."

• "The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins."

• "My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

• "It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."