History Quote by Ishmael Reed

“Men, like planets, have both a visible and invisible history.”

— George Eliot

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives”

— Dexter Perkins

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.”

— Steven Magee

“History is funny that way. Things that seem far off and impossible have a way of turning out to be bearer and more possible…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.”

— Anonymous

“History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.”

— Elena Lappin

“Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness. -Philip Melanchthon”

— Carter Lindberg

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from…

— Barbara Quick

“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no…

— Milan Kundera