Alive Quote by Allan Bloom

“History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this point in…

— Ming-Dao Deng

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

— Frederick Douglass

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

— John McCain

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall…

— Robert Penn Warren

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot…

— C. S. Lewis

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

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…

— Howard Nemerov

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

— Donald Trump

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway