Amateur Quote by George Dyson

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

— Javier Bardem

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and…

— Roger Miret

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

I wanted to write history rather than participate in it.

— Samir Nasri

My grandfather was a history teacher, one reason the subject has been an integral part of my life.

— Sudha Murty

History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something…

— Margaret MacMillan

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

— Hilary Mantel

History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.

— Kiera Cass

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be a history maker”

— Sunday Adelaja

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

— Anonymous