Belief Quote by David Mitchell

“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however.…

— David Mitchell

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but…

— James Anthony Froude

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory…

— Salman Rushdie

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 indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

“Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions”

— Savania China

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

— Barack Obama

“A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.”

— Richard B. Spence

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

— Emile M. Cioran