More From Gertrude Stein
- "The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."
- "Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens."
- "I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."
More In History
- "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."― Walter Bagehot
- "In my Olympic history I don’t think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That’s what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot."― Paula Radcliffe
- "I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments."― Friedrich August von Hayek