Habits - Quotes

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Habits

A habit is a choice that we deliberately make at some point and then stop thinking about, but continue doing, often every day. - Charles Duhigg

A habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get a REWARD. - Charles Duigg

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit. - Desiderius Erasmus

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. - Hosea Ballou

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. - Tryon Edwards

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course. - Aristotle 

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. - Unknown

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. - Unknown

Bad habits are overcome by good habits. - Lucas Remmerswaal

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with. - Orrin Woodward 

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. - Agatha Christie

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst Man good throughout. - Benjamin Franklin

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. - Julien Smith

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. - Horace Mann

Habit is a cruel jailer, yet how well-beloved. - Nellie Seelye Evans

Habit is a great swamp wherein men are turned to fossils. - Abraham Miller

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; as self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. - Arthur Koestler

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance. - William James

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock. - Marcel Proust

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change. - Charles Caleb Colton

Habit is the best of servants, or the worst of masters. - Nathaniel Emmons

Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. - Alphonse De Lamartine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. - Saint Augustine

Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters. - Croft M. Pentz

Habits influence the character pretty much as undercurrents influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes, or retard our progress, their influence is not the less important because imperceptible. - Christian Nestell Bovee

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. - Unknown

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees – as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. - John Dryden

In time, action becomes habit, and habit can wear reason away, leaving no traces. - Bernard Beckett

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them. - Austin O’Malley

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. - John Steinbeck

Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. - Confucius

Most men are prisoners at best, who some strong habit every drag about like chain and ball. - Henry Abbey

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. - William James

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. - Vince Lomardi

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act. - Orison Swett Marden

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. - Leo Aikman

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Smauel Johnson

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. - William Somerset Maugham

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behaviour. - Maxwell Maltz

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life? - Jack LaLanne

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. - John Dryden

We talk of acquiring a habit; we should rather say being acquired by it. - Eliza Cook

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you. - Paramahansa Yogananda

When habit clutches a man, he becomes a limp mass of nerveless meat. - Abraham Miller

Hate / Hatred - Quotes

All the time we spend hating is time that we’ve given away to someone who hasn’t earned our time. - Seth Godin

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate. - John Lyly

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. - Seneca

Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Folks never understand the folks they hate. - James Russell Lowell

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. - Socrates

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. - Maya Angelou

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. - Cyril Connolly 

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. - Ann Landers

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. - Cyril Connolly

Hate is the coward's revenge for being humiliated. - George Bernard Shaw

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. - Coretta Scott King

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Unknown

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule - The Buddha

Hatred is the great blazing fire. - Unknown

Hatred will take up expensive rental space in your heart, and not in the heart of the person you hate. - Unknown

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. - James Baldwin 

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. - Cicero

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. - James Baldwin 

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. - Tennessee Williams

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree. - Ivan Panin

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart. If you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. - C. Joybell C.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me – they hate you too. They hate everybody. Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone – and, ultimately, hating himself or herself. They need hate in order to feel superior. - Elie Wiesel

It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain. - Thomas Dreier

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. it causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Love, friendship, respect, will never unite people as much as a common hatred for something. - Anton Pavlovich Chekho

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred. This is the law Eternal. - Unknown

Next to meeting somebody who admires someone we admire, we all like to meet somebody who hates someone we hate. - Robert Elliott Gonzales

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. - Nelson Mandela

Others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon

Take care that no one hates you justly. - Publilius Syrus

The fiercest fire is hatred. - Gautama Buddha

The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart – far more damaging to yourself than to them. - Lawana Blackwell

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them. - Charles Caleb Colton

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil. - Dale Carnegie

Healing - Quotes

All healing is first a healing of the heart. - Carl Townsend

Before you heal someone, ask him is he’s willing to give up the things that made him sick. - Hippocrates

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal. - Unknown

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. - Hippocrates

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. - Wendell Berry

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain. - O. Carl Simonton

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are. - Rachel Naomi Remen

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. - Tori Amos

If there’s no breaking then there’s no healing, and if there’s no healing then there’s no learning. - One Tree Hill

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal your broken arms and legs. - Jim Henson

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. - Buddha

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert Humphrey

Health - Quotes

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. - Francis Bacon

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. - Gerald Brenan

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Unknown

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh

Do not spend your life daydreaming about health. Dream big, start small and live your dreams. And you will heal. - Darina Stoyanova

Eat healthy, but enjoy the occasional indulgence and meals in the company of friends without scrutinizing ingredients or feeling guilty. - Darina Stoyanova

Health is something you have and its value taken for granted until you lose it permanently in the process of seeking your wealth. So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. - Unknown

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king. - Isaac Bickerstaff

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. - Mahatma Gandhi

It is not possible to enjoy success without health. Guard your health as you journey towards success. - Unknown

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. - Thich Nhat Hanh

The groundwork of all happiness is health. - Leigh Hunt

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. - Paul Dudley White  

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - The Buddha

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. - Buddha

Hearts - Quotes

A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers. - Suzy Kassem

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. - Washington Irving

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. it is an expression of humility. it is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. - James E. Faust

A heart filled with anger has no room for love. - Unknown

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. - Pietro Aretino

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side. - Unknown

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but also the parent of all other virtues. - Cicero

Ah, nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. - Albert Camus

Don't tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you'll see that it's better. - Unknown

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. -  Plato

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. - Robert Luis Stevenson

Faint heart never won fair lady. - W. S. Gilbert

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’... I can’t fathom my own heart. - Michael Caine

If we can look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. - Unknown

If you haven't got charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. - Bob Hope

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? - Confucius

If you want the key to someone’s heart, accept and love them for who they are. - Unknown

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. - Antonio Porchia

In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. - Aeschylus

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. - Sir Philip Sidney

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. - Unknown

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. - Melody Beattle

No matter how bad your heart is broken the world does not stop for your grief. - Unknown

No Vision and you perish; no Ideal, and you’re lost; our heart must ever cherish some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, some rainbow in the sky, some melody to sing to, some service that is high. - Harriet Du Autermont

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. - Arnold H. Glasgow

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. - Paulo Coelho

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows. - Unknown

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. - Mignon McLaughlin

The heart at rest sees a feast in everything. - Hindu Proverb

The heart has its prisons that intelligence cannot unlock. - Marcel Jouhandeau

The heart has its reasons which the mind knows nothing about. - Blaise Pascal

The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic. - Maria V. Snyder

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. - Jeremiah

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion, or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? - Buddha

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment. - Ayya Khema

The heart is peaceful and joyful when we no longer imagine that we need something. - Eric Baret

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. - Willa Cather  

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too. - Vincent van Gogh

The heart of the wise, like a mirror, should reflect all objects without being sullied by any. - Confucius

The heart that knows how to bow down and say SORRY is the heart that loves the most. - Unknown

The heart that loves is always young. - Unknown

The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care. - Emily Dickinson

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness. - Frank Herbert 

The human heart is like Indian rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. - Anne Bronte

The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. - Lyndsey Albrecht

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. - Deepak Chopra

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak. - Alfred De Musset

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. - Carroll Bryant

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those. - Unknown

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Andrew Holmes 

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent –that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To know another's heart, you must first know your own. - Laurel K. Hamilton

What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What’s often in your heart is the hardest to reach. - George Harrison

Wherever you go take your whole heart along. - Unknown

When your heart speaks, take good notes. - Judith Campbell 

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. - Louise Driscoll

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. - Russell Baker

Your heart is where your treasure is, and you must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything. - Paulo Coelho

Your heart often knows things before your mind does. - Polly Adler

Help - Quotes

Always help someone. You might  be the only one who does. - Unknown

Cries for help are frequently inaudible. - Tom Robbins

Divine help will only come to those who are committed to their goal. Commit, and help will come to you when you really need it. - Unknown

Do not hesitate to reach out for help; we all need it from time to time. - Unknown

Everyone, no matter how big and strong, could use a little help sometimes. Never  be afraid to ask for help when you need it. What are we here for, if not for each other? - Doe Zantamata  

Give help rather than advice. - Luc De Vauvenargues

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped. - Benjamin Franklin

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. - G. I. Gurdjieff

It’s hard to offer help to someone who doesn’t have the slightest idea that he needs it. - Unknown

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. - Mother Teresa

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. - Ric Ocasek

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. - Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. - Unknown

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. - Fred Dehner

The greatest help you can give someone is to help him help himself. - Unknown

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. - Andrew Carnegie

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. - Earl Nightingale

When we all help one another, everybody wins. - Jim Stovall

Heroes - Quotes

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. - Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell

A real hero is someone who gets up even when he can't. - Jared Leto

A hero is someone who does what must be done, and needs no other reason. - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup. - Ken Kesey

Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero worship is transcendent wonder. - Thomas Carlyle

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it. - Lyman Abbott

Heroism is endurance for one moment more. - George Kennan

Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. - Gerald White Johnson

Heroes are people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences. - Unknown

Heroism ... is endurance for one moment more. - George F. Kennan

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely. - Alexander Lowen

If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning. - Gao XingJian

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero. - Christian Nestell Boveee

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they have stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. - Kevin Costner

Real heroes don't save the world, they serve the world. - Linda Bird

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The ability to accept victory graciously and take defeat without bitterness is what makes heroes. - Unknown

The characteristic of genuine heroism is persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - Umberto Eco

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. - Ronald Reagan

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. - Arthur Ashe

Unhappy the land that needs heroes. - Bertolt, Brecht

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up ... discovering we have the strength to stare it down. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Hindsight - Quotes

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. - Billy Wilder

Hindsight is an exact science. - Guy Bellamy

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it. - Amos Elon

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment. - Edwin S. Shneidman

Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes. - Diane F. Halpern

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds. - Jeremy J. Siegel

Hindsight, or our ability to see our past clearly, is a learning function that, when damaged ... renders us unable to look at the past to guide ourselves through the present and into the future. Without this ability, we cannot learn from our mistakes. We cannot clean up the wreckage of our actions. We are locked into a cycle of repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. This is commonly known as the definition of insanity. - Barbara S. Cole

In retrospect, it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated! - Alfred E. Neuman

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. - John Fletcher

Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case. - Hersh Shefrin

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight. - Morris Kline

We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness has all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil. - Karen Casey

Well, as we all know by now, hindsight is twenty-twenty, but it is possible to turn your hindsight into foresight. - Ellen Moore

History - Quotes

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. - Robert A. Heinlein

A good knowledge of things past is an armour against events to come. - Edward Counsel

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. - Anne Bronte

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. - Edwin H. Land

Anyone can look for history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store. - Robert Wieder

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. - Lewis H. Lapham

Each day is a little bit of history. - Jose Saramago

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries. - Richard Nixon

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert Kenny

Happy nations have no history. - Belgian Proverb

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. - Frank Herbert

History ... is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

History allows us to see the obvious – but unfortunately, not until it is too late. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history – while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance – might make you sceptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth. - Howard Zinn

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. - Charles de Gaulle

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? - Washington Irving

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story. - Buzz Aldrin

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. - T. S. Eliot

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. - Frank Herbert

History is a relay of revolutions. - Saul Alinsky

History is a vast dust-heap of falsehood with a few pennies of truth scattered through it. - Austin O’Malley

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books, books which glorify their own cause and disparage as the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said; “What is history, but a fable agreed upon?” - Unknown

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -Ambrose Bierce

History is full of surprises. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place. - Howard Zinn

History is mainly a record of wars, and it has bequeathed the sorry fact that still nations devote more money to armies and navies than they do to education or the arts. - James Platt

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is not a suicide note – it is a record of our survival. - Jeanette Winterson

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. - Karl Marx

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. - George Santayana

History is Philosophy teaching by example. - Unknown

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. - Walter Bagehot 

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. - Julian Barnes

History is the autobiography of a madman. - Alexander Herzen

History is the same thing over and over again. - Woody Allen

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. - Cicero

History is written by the winners. - Alex Haley

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time. - Blackie Sherrod

History of mankind has been marked by progression and destruction. Everyone is duty bound to learn from the past and help shape the destiny of our future generations. - Unknown

History records the successes of men with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small men overwhelmed by obstacles. - William H. Danforth

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. - Phillip Guedala

History teaches us that man and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. - Thomas Henry Huxley

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelou

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume. - George Eliot

History, with scarcely an exception, ought to be rewritten. - Horace Mann

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline. - John Updike

History… is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. - Dorothy Salisbury Davis

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! - George Bernard Shaw

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. - Isaac Asimov

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes; and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. - Michael Crichton

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. - Toni Morrison

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. - Voltaire

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir. - Seamus Heaney

Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples. - Arthur C. Clarke

Make history or be a part of it. - Phil Knight

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions. - Tanith Lee

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. - Karl Marx

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. - John Barth

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

No man is free of his own history. - Anita Brookner

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate – like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history – until it degenerates into fables. - Isaac Asimov

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight. - Malcolm X

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato

Some people make headlines while others make history. - Philip Elmer-DeWitt

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. - John Buchan

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. - Aldous Huxley

The business of the historian is with the truth of things, but he is too much under temptation to make his history interesting, to be always able to reject a fine story. - Christian Nestell Bovee

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley

The great historian is he that can distinguish what is done from what happens. - Ivan Panin

The historian's duty is to separate the true from the false, the certain from the uncertain, and the doubtful from that which cannot be accepted. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice – their choice. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil. - William Hazlitt

The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. - Lewis F. Korns

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. - Thomas Carlyle

The men who make history have not time to write it. - Metternich

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde

The only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today. - Henry Ford

The phenomena of history should be so recorded as to aid the reader, and particularly the young reader, in discovering its philosophy, instead of being recorded as they have hitherto generally been, in such a way as to obliterate the better instincts of humanity. - Horace Mann

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads. - Jacqueline Carey

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. - M. Scott Peck

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt

There is properly no history; only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it. - Unknown

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. - Haile Selassie

To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child. - Cicero

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. - Lord Acton

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. - Sir Winston Churchill

We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. - George Bernard Shaw

What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence! - Sir Walter Raleigh

What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments never have learnt anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. - George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history. - Jane Addams

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. - Eugene V. Debs

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien