Famous Quotes

"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."

Alphonse de Lamartine 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 Alphonse de Lamartine

• "Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

• "There is a woman at the begining of all great things."

• "Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

• "There is a woman at the begining of all great things."

• "To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."