Best Human History Qoutes
304 Human History quotes by 239 unique authors
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
— H.G. Wells
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
— H.G. Wells
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The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization…
— Susan Sontag
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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
— C.S. Lewis
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I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
— Sam Harris
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the…
— Banksy
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The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a…
— Alan Moore
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
— Terence McKenna
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The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining…
— Terry Eagleton
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Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and…
— Dan Brown
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In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs),…
— Howard Zinn
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In that most burdensome moment of all human history, with blood appearing at every pore and an anguished cry upon His lips, Christ sought Him…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
— Rollo May
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Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained…
— Aravind Adiga
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Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human…
— Graham Hancock
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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one…
— Albert Camus
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Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
— Jared Diamond
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In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of…
— Ben Okri
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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories…
— Angela Carter
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At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that…
— Alain de Botton
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
— Friedrich Engels
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