Afar Quote by Dan Simmons

“[H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.”

— Dan Simmons

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

— John W. Gardner

History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around.…

— David McCullough

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by…

— Augustus William Hare

“History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestor whispering inside. To understand history, we have to go…

— Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

— Peter Kreeft

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at…

— Michael Pollan

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

— Ekta Kapoor

People have different ways of interpreting history.

— Nate Silver

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

“...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