Historian Quote by Jerome Buckley

“The philosopher R. G. Collingwood once observed that the past as past was wholly unknowable. What was knowable was something different: the elements of…

— Ceri Crossley

“The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical figure, you…

— Lesley Hazleton

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

— Anonymous

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman

“We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely…

— Julian Barnes

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History is history. It's something to learn from, not repeat.”

— K. Weikel

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

“Mort thought that history was thrashing around like a steel hawser with the tension off, twanging backwards and forwards across reality in great destructive…

— Terry Pratchett

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”

— Galinda Glinda

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana