Famous Quotes

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• "Education is the art of making man ethical."

• "I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."

• "Education is the art of making man ethical."

• "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

• "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."