Oscar Wilde Quotes

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

All big changes of the world come from words.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

Power transforms what it touches.

A great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.

There’s a lot of power in a little paint.

Either you make history or you will be history.