"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."

Proverb, African | History and Historians | 2 bookmarks

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

Hoffer, Eric | History and Historians | 2 bookmarks

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

Cromwell, Oliver | History and Historians | 2 bookmarks

"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."

Bacon, Francis | Politicians and Politics | 2 bookmarks

"The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice."

Auden, W. H. | Politicians and Politics | 2 bookmarks

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar | Education | 10 bookmarks

"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Youth | 9 bookmarks

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar | Dreams | 14 bookmarks

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

Churchill, Winston | History and Historians | 6 bookmarks

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Carlyle, Thomas | History and Historians | 3 bookmarks