Change Quote by Franz Kafka

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears…

— Franz Kafka

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

— Emily Giffin

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that…

— Hannah Arendt

When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago-- will they read of us with sadness for the seeds…

— Neil Peart

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

— Simon Schama

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

— Michael Ondaatje

There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and…

— Christopher Tunnard

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

— Anonymous

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

— Neal Stephenson