History Quote by Eric John

“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they…

— Marc Bloch

“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include the accumulation…

— Edward W. Said

“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war,…

— Sharon E. McKay

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

— Dexter Perkins

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

“That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow;…

— Josephine Tey

“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

“The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And especially in…

— Americo Castro

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who…

— John Stuart Mill

“Historiography therefore becomes a prelude to understanding history as a form of knowledge.”

— Romila Thapar

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury

History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in…

— Robert Aris Willmott