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- The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.
- Lawrence K. Frank
- In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.
- Albert Cooper
- There is a history in all men's lives.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore De Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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