In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record. — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“What drives history is the human ambition to alter one’s condition to match one’s hopes.’3” — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets. — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race. — Mike Rounds Copy Share Image
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time. — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“The history of the human race is the history of human hatred. Even love cannot erase such intense hatred.” — Kei Ohishi Copy Share Image
“Here, captured between covers, was the history of the human imagination, and nothing had ever been more beautiful, or fearsome, or bizarre.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“15. “Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans,” Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. “History, Philosophy,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, the criterion of common sense was never applicable to the history of the human race. Averroës, Kant, Socrates, Newton, Voltaire, could… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, am walking through a larch wood and every step I take is history. I think 'I love… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history.… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“Men and women are learning animals. If you do not see what they have learned, you're blind. They are creatures ever changing,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The history of human achievement is, indeed,a record of what man can do by himself. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
