History Quote by Fernand Braudel Download Open image “All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.” — Fernand Braudel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Ifs
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options. — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Everybody has different interpretations of history, but what they need to do is be supported in some form or fashion by fact. — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“When the [colonial] contact was violent, in fact, failure was more frequent than success. 'Colonialism' may have triumphed in the past: but today it… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
