14 Quotes about History from Books
Hello. This page is a list of 14 quotes about History from various books. I hope you like and enjoy reading them. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector.
History Quotes
The history of the world is the history of a ten-thousand-year war of brains between the rich and the poor. Each side is eternally trying to hoodwink the other side: and it has been this way since the start of time. - The White Tiger book by Aravind Adiga -
Anyone who studies history can see that no system of government, no economic system, no currency, and no empire lasts forever, yet almost everyone is surprised and ruined when they fail. - Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio -
History, like human life, is at once incredibly fast and agonizingly slow. - The Anthropocene Reviewed book by John Green -
History presses into us, shaping contemporary experience. History changes as we look back on the past from different presents. And history is electric current, too—charged and flowing. It takes power from some sources and delivers it to others. - The Anthropocene Reviewed book by John Green -
There is no holding history fast. It is always receding and dissolving, not just into the unknowable past but also into the unfixable future. - The Anthropocene Reviewed book by John Green -
Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences. - Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson -
To me, the allure of history lay in the minutiae of life long ago, the untold secrets of ordinary people. - The Lost Apothecary book by Sarah Penner -
History isn’t something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn’t politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything. - How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig -
The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world. - How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig -
History instructs. History informs. History, if you look carefully, can provide invaluable lessons. - Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol -
History is an exercise in self-deception if we get the wrong messages from it. Only through the hard work of looking beyond the first-order causes - particularly when we’re afraid of what we might see - do we begin to learn from history. - Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol -
Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us. - A Promised Land book by Barack Obama -
There are moments in history where just because things have been the same way in the past doesn't mean they will be the same way in the future. - A Promised Land book by Barack Obama -
History is something you look back on, not something you really feel at the time. In the moment, you're just ... living. - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue book by V. E. Schwab -