Accept Quote by Rene Girard

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

— Rene Girard

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

— Albert Camus

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

“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

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit…

— Queen Elizabeth II

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

— Robert Penn Warren

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

— Christopher Pike

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig