Belief Quote by Ernest Thompson Seton

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

— Mason Cooley

Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has…

— Lucio Russo

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

— Terry Pratchett

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to…

— Hans Sloane

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as…

— Thomas Huxley

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

— Douglas Coupland

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

— Terry Pratchett

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence…

— Kenneth Clark

Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man…

— Raymond Williams

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury