Certain Quote by George Orwell

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

— Mason Cooley

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

— Madeleine Albright

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming…

— Terry Eagleton

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

— Julian Jaynes

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

— Hippolyte Taine

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

— Mason Cooley

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

— Tony Judt

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

— Alan Bean