Famous Quotes

"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."

Johan Huizinga 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 Johan Huizinga

• "Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

• "An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."

• "These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."

• "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

• "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."