Famous Quotes

"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."

Stephen Gardiner 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 Stephen Gardiner

• "What people want, above all, is order."

• "The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world."

• "Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."

• "The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."

• "The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."