Famous Quotes

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

Rudyard Kipling 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 Rudyard Kipling

• "He travels the fastest who travels alone."

• "Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."

• "And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'"

• "It's clever, but is it Art?"

• "San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."