Extinction Quote by Henry Adams

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

— Arthur Kemp

“history does not tolerate a vacuum. If incidences of famine, plague and war are decreasing, something is bound to take their place on the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

— Carl L. Becker

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and…

— Carter G. Woodson

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

“It wasn't enough just to read and study historical facts, whoever studied history should consider Themselves creators of history”

— U Aung San

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game,…

— Stefan Zweig

History is the zoology of the human race.

— Franz Grillparzer

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the…

— C. V. Wedgwood

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

— Karl Popper