Doing the right thing Quote by Madeline Ffitch

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written,…

— Albert Camus

“History was like looking into others’ lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.”

— Max Vos

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“we are not on the side of history made. We were, as I have said, situated in such a way that every lived minute…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Why were the people who clung so fiercely to the notions of right and wrong the very same individuals that had the worst grasp…

— Wildbow

“we use to regret over our past... but sometimes i wonder why ??? because everything we did in past was best from our side,…

— Lovely Goyal

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“It was an ignorant perception of the past at which most scoffed, but those who were wiser simply shook their heads in embarrassment knowing…

— Sean DeLauder

“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There is no 'right side of history', there is only their side, and yours”

— Holden R. Snow

“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.”

— Terry Goodkind