Development Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Joel Garreau

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

— H. G. Wells

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

— Edward Gibbon

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

— Ludwig von Mises

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

— Jeremy Rifkin

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

— Jason Russell

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us.…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Edward Gibbon

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains…

— Paul Valery

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that…

— Tom Stoppard

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one…

— A. J. P. Taylor