Defining Quote by Ken Burns

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

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

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

— James W. Loewen

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

— Roger Rees

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

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

— Elias Canetti

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically…

— Grace Lee Boggs

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb