History Quote by Eric Hobsbawm

“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.”

— Leah Bobet

“People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.”

— APORVAKALA

“History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.”

— Lynda I Fisher

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.”

— Zachary Frerichs

“Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can learn... Oh,…

— Marina Lewycka

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget.”

— Samantha Sotto

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

— Henry Giroux