Chronology Quote by Andre Gide

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

— Lawrence Wright

You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before eight; you…

— John Henrik Clarke

I'm a horrible historian. My memory is bad. I read things and then I forget them. I can't understand dates and I can't measure…

— Lucy Corin

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

— Ansel Adams

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

— John Henrik Clarke

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

— Catherine Doherty

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

— Simon Schama

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

— Donald Trump

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

— Pearl Bailey

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

— Sylvia Day

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

— Robert Breault