History Quote by APORVAKALA

“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past…

— Aporva Kala

“That's the way history works. People forget so easily. You start telling yourself a new version of the past, and after a while, it…

— Peter Tieryas

“Being different and thinking differently make a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”

— Suzy Kassem

“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making…

— Tracy Kidder

“Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.”

— Alen Sargsyan

“People so easily forget their past selves.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.”

— Leah Bobet

“Having no history, I decide, is a blessing. I wouldn’t want to be cursed with the memory of a lifetime of mistakes.”

— Anne Heltzel

“History is what people want to remember.”

— Jane Stevenson

“People, who incessantly bring up your past, haven't forgotten their own.”

— Lisa Askew

“However, there is something worse than idealizing the past—or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.”

— Tony Judt

“Everyone’s past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.”

— Andrew Davidson