Anthropology Quote by Émile Durkheim

“We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.”

— Jill Bialosky

“Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.”

— Phil Cousineau

“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”

— Daniel Nayeri

“History is funny that way. Things that seem far off and impossible have a way of turning out to be bearer and more possible…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.”

— Anthony Liccione

“It is a curious phenomenon: as we advance, we reach backward in time.”

— Wade Graham

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

“History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers.”

— Amber Kizer

“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova