History Quote by Charles Nicholl Download Open image ““This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.”” — Charles Nicholl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.” — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
“If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.” — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Yesterday is as ancient as a millennia ago, because both are forever out of reach.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Everything should be doubted and tested before it is held to be true.” — Charles Nicholl Copy Share Image
“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written… — Charles Nicholl Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
