Feel good Quote by Ed Koch

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

— Marjorie Garber

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of…

— Livy

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

— George Orwell

History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social…

— Edward Hallett Carr

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

— James W. Loewen

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when…

— Anonymous

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices…

— James Howard Kunstler

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— George Santayana