History Quote by Heath White

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“That's how history unfolds. People weave a web of meaning, believe in it with all their heart, but sooner or later the web unravels,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,-- Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It fascinates Manar—not just history”

— Hala Alyan

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

“It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.”

— Geoff Ryman

“There are narrow windows for certain beginnings. Multiple strands of personal histories, psychologies, emotions that intersect once only, and then never again.”

— Owen Sheers

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson