Past Events Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. — H. P. Blavatsky
• Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. — Caroline Myss
• Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events;… — Milan Kundera
• Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. — Sallust
• It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume
• The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage,… — Peter A. Levine
• Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting… — Jill Bolte Taylor
• . . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or… — Michael L Morgan
• For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of… — Eric Foner
• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
• A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.… — George Orwell
• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who… — Walter Russell Mead
• Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
• National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly
• I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which… — Salman Rushdie
• Honestly, I spend very little time thinking about past events, and I certainly don't have them ranked in any way. I look back and think… — John Carmack
• I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short — Charles Kennedy
• History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest. — Anthony Storr

Who Wrote These Past Events Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Past Events Quotes as follows:

• 1 Past Events Quote by Michael L Morgan
• 1 Past Events Quote by Eric Foner
• 1 Past Events Quote by Georges Cuvier
• 1 Past Events Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Past Events Quote by Walter Russell Mead
• 1 Past Events Quote by Thomas Merton
• 1 Past Events Quote by Phyllis Schlafly
• 1 Past Events Quote by Salman Rushdie
• 1 Past Events Quote by John Carmack
• 1 Past Events Quote by Charles Kennedy
• 1 Past Events Quote by Anthony Storr
• 1 Past Events Quote by Roy Bennett
• 1 Past Events Quote by Nishan Panwar
• 1 Past Events Quote by Karla Thornton
• 1 Past Events Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1 Past Events Quote by M. King Hubbert
• 1 Past Events Quote by H. P. Blavatsky
• 1 Past Events Quote by Caroline Myss
• 1 Past Events Quote by Milan Kundera
• 1 Past Events Quote by Sallust
• 1 Past Events Quote by David Hume
• 1 Past Events Quote by Peter A. Levine
• 1 Past Events Quote by Jill Bolte Taylor