Education Quote by Herbert Butterfield

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our…

— Herbert Butterfield

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

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

— Elizabeth Kostova

“History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where…

— Reg Whitaker

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

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

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“History is re-creation while literature is creation.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes