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History is not the past -“ it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past

History is not the past -“ it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past
– Hilary Mantel

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  1. Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. – Hilary Mantel
  2. Fantasy is unconstrained by truth. – Hilary Mantel
  3. She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey. – Hilary Mantel
  4. Feminism hasn’t failed, it’s just never been tried. – Hilary Mantel
  5. The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them. – Hilary Mantel
  6. …this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash. – Hilary Mantel
  7. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. – Hilary Mantel
  8. He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves. – Hilary Mantel
  9. By the hairy balls of Jesus – Hilary Mantel
  10. Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home. – Hilary Mantel
  11. He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins. – Hilary Mantel
  12. Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour. – Hilary Mantel
  13. Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind. – Hilary Mantel
  14. The lawyer’s world is entire unto itself, the human pared away. – Hilary Mantel
  15. I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up. – Hilary Mantel
  16. A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  17. All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it’s the will that gives us the ability to focus – Bob Proctor
  18. Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them. – Emil A Zafirov
  19. Madness is a wholly human malady borne in a brain too evolved-”or not quite evolved enough-”to bear the awful burden of its own existence. – Rick Yancey
  20. My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method. – Keith Johnstone
  21. humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance. – Gad Saad
  22. Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. – Shankara
  23. No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries. – Thomas Sowell
  24. The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience. – Stephen Richards
  25. Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  26. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  27. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  28. Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history. – Jordan Maxwell
  29. My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
  30. Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
  31. History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
  32. You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
  33. History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history – Mohammed Sekouty
  34. History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. – AJP Taylor
  35. Don’t use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come. – Miya Yamanouchi
  36. …that it is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. – Brian Friel
  37. Life evolved from time – Sunday Adelaja
  38. The person who have a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image. – Bob Proctor
  39. Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination. – Steven Pinker
  40. Imitating someone is the mediocre way of getting humanity back to what we evolved from. – Shubham Choudhary

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