History Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“History is never tidy.”

— Antony Beevor

“History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.”

— Lynda I Fisher

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

“history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and over again.”

— Jennifer Latham

“History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.”

— Ladislas Farago

“Remember, your history is a total mystery. Sometimes it seems that a lot is happening in a short period of time – and, sometimes…

— Art Hochberg

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

— Melvyn Bragg

“History does repeat itself, but must it do so so frequently?”

— Gordon G. Chang

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“The mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.”

— Marwane Caber