History Quote by Benedetto Croce

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past…

— Gore Vidal

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

— Michael Howard

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

“The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but…

— Stephen Fry

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn