History Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“History mattered. But it could not guarantee what might happen next.”

— Michelle Gable

“One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.”

— Paul J. McAuley

“You can’t invent a historically memorable event, unless it really happened.”

— Shulem Deen

“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.”

— William Ralph Inge

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”

— Edmund Burke

“The event of history is hidden in time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Even if something just happened, it can still be history”

— Stephanie Kate Strohm

“Isn't history breaking so fast that you have to anticipate it?”

— Joseph McElroy

“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise…

— Terry Pratchett

“What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.”

— Robert Prisig