Action Quote by Anthony Giddens

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones…

— Carroll Quigley

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

— Gerda Lerner

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to…

— Humberto Maturana

History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action,…

— Walter Wink

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

— Joel Garreau

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

— Mason Cooley

“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this…

— William Ernest Hocking

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky