History Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

“The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to…

— Yoko Ogawa

“They thought they were employing an economy-saving doctrine of situational leniency, but they somehow failed to understand that by coming up with a calculus…

— Matt Taibbi

“All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions…

— Timothy Venning

“The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made…

— Michael Lewis

“Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake. Some decisions are right even in…

— Jill Santopolo

“A lifetime of doing the right thing could be completely obliterated by one lapse in judgment. One mistake.”

— Melinda Leigh

“History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.”

— Keith Thompson

“[...] all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do…

— Sinclair Lewis

“The mistake too many people make, it seems, is either not having the plan in the first place or once they do, treating it…

— Denise Shull

“Most people considered options a good thing, the American way, but one tended to squander those choices, or to choose badly, and then to…

— Scott Lasser