Most Americans are exceptionalists; we think we live outside of history. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I’m erasing myself from the narrative. Let future historians wonder how Eliza reacted when you broke her heart.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity.… — Allan Wolf Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating… — Elad Lassry Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing developments in the history of biology. — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise. — Red Constantino Copy Share Image
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“But history is so often molded from tainted clay by those who remain.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“the publication of his historical novel ‘Shadows Of The Son’ that gave” — Daniel Leston Copy Share Image
Life is who you are ! Make a history so that there would something to reminisce ! — Trezy Camp Copy Share Image
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
![“[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a70/jeffrey-rosen-13180_american-history_louis-brandeis-like-tomas-jefferson-is-a_1341726.jpg)
