Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.