History Quotes

"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future." "You can't undo the past . . . but you can certainly not repeat it" "The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history" "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past" "It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order" "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting" "History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods" "From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves" "Throughout history, population size and innovation levels are linked" "Consider that children who grew up traveling by horse and cart and burning wood for heat in the late nineteenth century spent their final days traveling by airplane and living in houses warmed by the splitting of the atom" "I'm a make my name last, put it in the books" "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient." "The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history." "The lessons of the past have shown us that military adventures can lead to human tragedies on a vast scale." "History has shown there are no invincible armies. "