History Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.” — Andrew S. Grove Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“If there is difference of opinions on a rare occasion, then that is the measure of being a human.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.” — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
“When we overlook the errors of people we like and favour. We are crippling the society, because others look up to them and are… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“A opinion is a opinion,but when it turns into a assumption…then we have a problem.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one's own opinion binds up the intellect.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image