#his

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#history #literature #politics #defeat

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#sophistication #ultimate

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#simplicity #sophistication #simplicity

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#terrorism

The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of history and then another, zigzagging across the marsh, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life. Yet I can't help wondering if it's a bit like being a Wagnerite; you just have to get used to the fact that some people are never going to listen. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#teaching #communication

We learn from history that we don't learn from history! ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#history #south-africa #africa

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#came #destination #does #get #his

Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#peace #economy

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. ↗

— Peter Singer

#history #philosophy #ethics

A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with." - Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother ↗

— Liz Newman

#quotes-about-heartbreak #romance #women-s-fiction #women-s-strength #life