Community Quote by Carter Lindberg

“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.”

— Douglas Preston

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

— David Miliband

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

“Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can learn... Oh,…

— Marina Lewycka

“History is what people want to remember.”

— Jane Stevenson

“Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.”

— T.F. Hodge

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

— Haruki Murakami

“I understand that my memories are important to history.”

— Clint Hill

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

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

— Leah Bobet