Fueled/history

Famous quotes containing the words fueled and/or history:

“The “real movement” of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb (b. 1922)

“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)