Time Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“Most of what they currently learn at school will probably be irrelevant by the time they are forty.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“in the not-so-distant future we might again have to contend with non-sapiens humans.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Apparently, even at the time of the Cognitive Revolution, different Sapiens groups had different dialects.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Many valuables cannot be stored – such as time or beauty.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The most important economic resource is trust in the future,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometres of the globe’s surface, almost ten times the size of Britain. How did this…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is dangerous to trust or future to market forces, because these forces do what's good for the market rather than what's…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Physicists define the Big Bang as a singularity. It is a point at which all the known laws of nature did not…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What enables banks – and the entire economy – to survive and flourish is our trust in the future. This trust is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“You also educate people thoroughly. From the moment they are born, you constantly remind them of the principles of the imagined order,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In times of war, men’s control of the armed forces has made them the masters of civilian society, too. They then used…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Whatever path we take, the first step is to acknowledge the complexity of the dilemma and to accept that simplistically dividing the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Take Google Maps or Waze. On the one hand, they amplify human ability - you are able to reach your destination faster…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don't exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“With each passing year our tolerance for unpleasant sensations decreases, and our craving for pleasant sensations increases. Both scientific research and economic…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The problem, according to Buddhism, is that our feelings are no more than fleeting vibrations, changing every moment, like the ocean waves.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“With time, the racism spread to more and more cultural arenas. American aesthetic culture was built around white standards of beauty. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics?…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time. Today is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The trap snapped shut. The pursuit of an easier life resulted in much hardship, and not for the last time. It happens…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The way out of the trap was discovered only in the modern era, with the appearance of a new system based on…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Why does the theory of evolution provoke such objections, whereas nobody seems to care about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics?…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The only way to build Göbekli Tepe was for thousands of foragers belonging to different bands and tribes to cooperate over an…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If the curtain is indeed about to drop on Sapiens history, we members of one of its final generations should devote some…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Ours is the first time in history that the world is dominated by a peace-loving elite – politicians, business people, intellectuals and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“That tale is a fantasy. There is no evidence that people became more intelligent with time. Foragers knew the secrets of nature…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Planck famously said that science advances one funeral at a time. He meant that only when one generation passes away do new…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But, by 8500 BC, the Middle East was peppered with permanent villages such as Jericho, whose inhabitants spent most of their time…

— Yuval Noah Harari