“To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.” IfsHandsSuccessSoundResultsEventsJudgingBattleKissingDecidedCourtErrorsDefeatCommitInstanceHeroismNelsonClouded Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.” KnowsKnow HowEventsVictoryDefeatSeeds Author:Charles Stanley
“Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.” ThinkingWorldBelieveMeanHas BeensEventsAuthorityHistoricalDefeatNineCentsConquestNinetyTrustworthyNinety NineHistorical EventsNorman Conquest Author:C. S. Lewis
“Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.” WorldFirstsProcessEventsCreationTheoryRevolutionBoundsDefeatWideSocialismPermanentRevolutionaryGermanyDefiniteCurvesCalendarsInterdependenceProletariatStalinism Author:Leon Trotsky