Back Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

We cannot escape history.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution…

— Edward R. Murrow

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten,…

— Matt Smith

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

— Clint Eastwood

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

— Joseph Boyden