Conscious Quote by J. H. Plumb

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

— Carl L. Becker

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

— Karl Marx

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

— George Orwell

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

— Paul Valery

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who…

— David McCullough