Catching Quote by Edward R. Murrow

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again -…

— Thomas Sowell

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

While we read history we make history.

— George William Curtis

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

— James Gleick

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten,…

— Matt Smith

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

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history…

— James W. Loewen

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson