History Quote by Dexter Perkins

“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives”

— Dexter Perkins

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough

Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you…

— Philippe Falardeau

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from…

— Barbara Quick

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along…

— Garth Greenwell