Cease Quote by Joseph Joubert

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one…

— A. J. P. Taylor

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

— Jean Baudrillard

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace…

— Lord Acton

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion.…

— Meg Rosoff

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

— Max Lucado

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier