History Cannot Quotes
- The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. — Stephen Jay Gould
- No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic… — Boris Pasternak
- Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. — Doris Lessing
- Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood