Duration Quote by Hannah Arendt

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

— James Buchan

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

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

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

— Ben Sasse

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is…

— Joe Kaeser

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

— Douglas Hurd

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions…

— Rachel Nichols

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner