Abundance Quote by Hannah Arendt

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history…

— James W. Loewen

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest.

— Anthony Storr

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives,…

— Anonymous

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the…

— Orson Scott Card

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

“If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago? The point…

— Ambeth Ocampo

“Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding…

— George M. Dennison

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

— Jeanette Winterson