History Of Life Quotes

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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  History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

  James Joyce

  Truth, History, Trying

  Ulysses (1922)

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• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Guidance, Passing, Witness

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• History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Reality, Daily Life

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• History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities. 


  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Reality, History

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

  David Attenborough

  Tree, Life Is, Constructs

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• The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

  E. O. Wilson

  Earth, Surroundings, Interaction

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• I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Important, Goes On, World

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus magazine, September 1998.

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• In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

  Paul Reiser

  Dating, Romance, News

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• And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

  Niles Eldredge

  Reality, Ideas, Knowing

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• The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

  James Gleick

  Negative, Life Is, Term

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• Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Two, Mammals

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• The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

  Nathan Wolfe

  World, Way, Infection

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• The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Events, Stories, Evolution

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• The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Records, Life Is, Whole

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• The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Mind, Development, World

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• The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

  Tony Juniper

  Years, Important, Three

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• Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

  Jack London

  Practice, Civilization, Enemy

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Brain, Intimate, External Forces

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