Books Quote by Joseph Anderson

“Even if published in written form, history, it is argued, is not embedded as a memory at an individual level: it has to be…

— Suzanne Keene

History is only written from what remains.

— Jill Lepore

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

— Bruce Fein

“Reading history is good for all of us. If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man…

— Anonymous

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

— Henry David Thoreau

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of…

— Colm Toibin

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

— C. V. Wedgwood

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

— Wallace Stegner

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records,…

— George F. Kennan

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

— Paul Valery

“Writing a history of the world is a ridiculous thing to do. The amount of information is too vast for any individual to absorb,…

— Andrew Marr