"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

Thought

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

Friendship

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

Truth

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

Man

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

Man

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Philosophy, Misery, Humanity

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

History, Repetition, Lesson, Past

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

History, Corruption, Nature, Violence, Humanity

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

History, Moon, Change, Truth

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Echo, Future, Past

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

History, Culture, Philosophy, Decline

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

History, Memory, Identity, Crime

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

Exlpore more History quotes

"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."