History Quote by David Olusoga

University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover…

— Bruce Sterling

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

— Karl Marx

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

— Karl Marx

“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope…

— Thomas Piketty

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the…

— Lord Acton

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

— John Clapham

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right…

— Rose Tremain

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition…

— Bertrand Russell

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges