Historical Quote by Geoffrey Elton

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to…

— Humberto Maturana

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones…

— Carroll Quigley

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

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein

History is history. What is done is done.

— Sister Souljah

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

— David P. Thelen

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

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

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