Analogies Quote by James Bryce

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and…

— Michael Mandelbaum

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

— Karl Marx

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

— Jim Leach

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

— Elizabeth Coleman

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

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

— Erik Erikson