History Quote by Albert Camus

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written,…

— Albert Camus

All history is the history of thought,

— Robin G. Collingwood

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

— William H. Prescott

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

— Voltaire

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

— Robin G. Collingwood

“We preferred to imagine ourselves on the right side of things, including history. We preferred to stand side by side, thinking despising thoughts about…

— Madeline Ffitch

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

“Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the…

— Pythagoras

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner