History Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

— George Herbert

“The wheel of Fortune turns one way and another, taking us to the heights or the depths. That is the great wheel on which…

— Ned Hayes

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn…

— Philippa Gregory

“history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.”

— N.D. Wilson

“Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing or iron tools.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

— Mason Cooley

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

— James Redfield

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but human nature remains the same.”

— Ken Burns

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

— Herodotus