Beauty Quote by Camille Paglia

History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to…

— George Weigel

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

— Gordon S. Wood

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a…

— Peter Ackroyd

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as…

— Ludmilla Jordanova

“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to look through…

— Jane Adams