Failing Quote by Robert Heilbroner Download Open image “We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.” — Robert Heilbroner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Helping History Life
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost! — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life. — Thomas Schlamme Copy Share Image
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image
