Animals Quote by David Olusoga

For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans…

— Margaret MacMillan

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out…

— Gretchen Rubin

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the…

— Adrian McKinty

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

— Deepak Chopra

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

— William James

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

“thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.”

— David Christian

“our natural inclination—our “psychological condition at rest”—is to consume the past for our own purposes or try to remake the past in our own…

— John Fea

You'd like to think we're past certain things, the way we treat people. I thought we were at a time where you love your…

— Eric Reid

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality.…

— Simon Schama