The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I knew we would eventually get back together, but I don't think any of us really knew when it was going to… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation. — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
We found a faith in America and a fierce determination to make our institutions work again as they have so often in… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
So I feel now very much like a guardian. I'm standing in front of art. I'm standing in front of cinema. I'm… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I still pinch myself every day that the name Zuckerberg is up there with the famous entrepreneurs in history. — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t be the first person in Silicon Valley history to interview at a company at which I didn’t really want a… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They didn’t have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn’t have books, yet what’s this thing in my hand? It’s square,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
It's good to break records, all the players like to make history and of course I'm happy to be part of Atletico's… — Joao Felix Copy Share Image
“At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
It's always a learning process, every time you work with someone. You take a bit of what their history is and hopefully… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be. — Ricardo Rossello Copy Share Image
This kind of 'separate but equal,' I've seen what it's done in the history here in America, and it didn't work. And… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
“The use of historical events and places in this novel are a respectful mix of fact and poetic license.” — Suanne Laqueur Copy Share Image
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's easy to be popular when you don't make the decisions a president makes. And it's easy to be unpopular when you're… — Dorothy Bush Koch Copy Share Image
Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image