History Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Method Past Time Writing Writing history
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past… The writing… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We… — Claude Bowers Copy Share Image
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
