Antiquity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“History is a drop in humanity’s bucket of time. The period we usually call “history” takes up the last five thousand years. By its…

— David W. Tollen

All history is modern history

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Peter Greenaway

History is the gradual instant

— Anne Michaels

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and…

— Thomas Carlyle

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All history was at first oral.

— Samuel Johnson

History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do…

— Janet Macunovich

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had…

— David Hume

Nothing's new since Genesis. And so everybody in their life thinks history began when they were born. Most people's historical perspective happened when they…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about time gone…

— Andy Andrews

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly…

— Anonymous