History Quote by Mark Elvin Download Open image ““Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.”” — Mark Elvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.” — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.” — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.” — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every human being,… — Da Xia Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and… — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered: fields end freedom. Whatever the astonishing subsequent achievements of civilization, it had a little recognized price: humanity itself became one… — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most overpowering contrast [with the West] is the virtual absence in premodern China of the idea of a transcendent creator God who… — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
“[There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds—all 'Chinese'—in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].” — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
“The resurrection of this once popular work [Ping Jinya's forgotten bestseller of the 1930s, Tides in the Human Sea ] is a reminder that… — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
“I have taken a different approach. One that I hope is more easily accessible to the reader’s emotional imagination, though less analytically systematic. I… — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
