History Quote by Barry Eisler

“Don’t carry the world around or your history around like a burden. In fact, don’t carry it around at all. One step at a…

— Art Hochberg

“Stories can make us remember—or forget—who we are. They have the power to topple governments or build empires. They are the life and breath…

— Laura Burroughs

“People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.”

— Dean M. Schroeder

“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something.”

— Timothy Snyder

“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.”

— Min Jin Lee

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

— Leah Bobet

“History is always written to serve the powerful.”

— Kevin Emerson

“History teaches us things about ourselves, but you have to listen for the lessons. You have to be really still to hear the whispers.”

— Amber Kizer

“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”

— Robert Bonville

“The actions of a single person with access to the secrets of a major power have the potential to modify the course of history.”

— Sergei Kostin

“So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.”

— Tom Harper

“If we had the power to rewrite our histories, what stories would we tell?”

— Karpov Kinrade