History Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All history is the history of thought,

— Robin G. Collingwood

“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this view, is…

— Ernest Gellner

“The history of thought - or of reason - is like this river. The thoughts that are washed along with the current of past…

— Jostein Gaarder

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history…

— Alfred Kazin

“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.”

— Jodi Picoult

“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which…

— Ludwik Fleck

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

— Robin G. Collingwood

“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and…

— David McCullough

“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit that the…

— Hermann Hesse

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to look through…

— Jane Adams

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

— Reinhold Niebuhr