Examples Quote by Jared Diamond

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare…

— Alan Bullock

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the…

— Aberjhani

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are…

— Anonymous

“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will…

— Ian Buruma

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

— Anonymous

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used;…

— James Baldwin

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....

— Max Beerbohm

“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the…

— Shannon L. Alder

The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for…

— Simon Conway Morris

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

— Joel Garreau