#history

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward. ↗

— Peter Ackroyd

#inspirational #inspirational

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness] ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#historyofpower #inspirational #politics #inspirational

...never give in, never give in... ↗

— Winston Churchill

#inspirational #military-history #inspirational

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium. ↗

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

#language #poet #poetry #spoken #word

What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#important #inspiration #life #normal #what-happened

if reason ruled the world would history even exist? ↗

— Ryszard Kapuściński

#intelligence #logic #reason #intelligence

And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#history #history-of-science #ideas #intelligent-playfulness #science

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#leadership #risk-taking #timid #leadership

Like some translucen latterday Cassandra, the prophetess of doom, (Heila the Comptesse von Westarp, the former secretary of the Thule Gesellschaff) rose up from the bosom of the limp and slumbering medium (Dr. Nemirovitch-Dantchanko) to give a warning that the man who was even now preparing to assume the leadership of Thule would prove himself to be a false prophet. Assuming total power over the nation, he would be responsible one day for reducing the whole of Germany to rubble and its people to a defeat and moreal degradation hitherto unknown to history. ↗

— Trevor Ravenscroft

#history #jesus-christ #the-occult #thule #leadership

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY. ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#history #inspirational #leaders #leadership #people