The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time. The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher power, or some god-like influence on man. Because it then becomes the belief that people are generally good and should be protected from the wiles of religion, as though this dark, vague and ignorant force once fell from the heavens, latched onto the purer hearts and minds of men and women, and, in all its forms, controlled and polluted the whole of human history. He says, 'When we defeat religion, humanity will be free.' But, if he were duly consistent, if he were really at all as secular as he claims, he might as well admit to what is actually an underlying brand of nihilistic cynicism: 'When we defeat humans, humanity will be free.

Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

There is properly no history; only biography.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History! Read it and weep!

It only needed two or three such defeats in succession for the backbone of a country to be put out of joint forever and for a thousand-year-old nation to be utterly destroyed.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

You don't change the course of history by turning the face of portraits to the wall.

Destiny is history and history is the road laid out before the steps that have not been taken.