History Quote by Philip Roth

Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time…

— Philip Roth

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

— Philip Roth

“It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating…

— joan didion

“confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which…

— Joan Didion

All history is the history of unintended consequences.

— T. J. Jackson Lears

“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance…

— Rebecca Solnit

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but…

— C.L.R. James

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

“The person unaware of history is like a rudderless boat just floating out in the middle of the ocean, hostages to the waves and…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should…

— Ellyn Spragins

“If there are unforeseen and potentially disastrous repercussions to the rash acts of the ignorant, so too are there unanticipated consequences buried in works…

— Chris Turner