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We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.
— Malala Yousafzai
In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings
— Daisaku Ikeda
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
— Raymond Williams
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
— H.A.L. Fisher
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
— Ernst W. Mayr
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.
— Adolf Hitler
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
— Friedrich Schiller
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
— George R R Martin
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
— Will Durant
Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism
— Frank Knight
History, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.
— Helen Foster Snow
For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.
— Elizabeth Taylor
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
— Marshall McLuhan
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
— David McCullough
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.
— Richard Heath
In the history of the earth, the sun remains still.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.
— James P. Carse
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
— Friedrich Schiller
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
— Edward Gibbon
Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
— Terence McKenna
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
— Ahmed Zewail
The history of human nature: How far can we get away with being complete and utter bastards, before we have to backtrack?
— Paul MacAlindin
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
— James Gleick
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
— Paul Lauterbur
Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.
— George R R Martin
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.
— Swami Vivekananda
That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.
— David Eddings
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.
— Kate Morton
Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.
— Giambattista Vico
The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.
— Arthur D. Hlavaty
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
— William Wordsworth
