Ability Quote by Gore Vidal

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past… The writing…

— Benedetto Croce

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

— A. J. P. Taylor

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

— Otto von Bismarck

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically…

— Grace Lee Boggs

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway