History Quote by Carl Lotus Becker

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“and yet we're in the generation where deleting history became more important than creating history.”

— Waasay Uddin

“The event of history is hidden in time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth,…

— Theodore White

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought…

— Michael Gruber

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

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of…

— Christopher Hill