History Quote by Lawrence Goodwyn

Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events.…

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

“If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.”

— Michael Billig

“next one hundred years we are history”

— Tasleem Khan

“Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past also lets…

— Rutger Bregman

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.”

— J. Christopher Herold

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Only through the careful study of historical documents can we prevent the distortion of where we came from and who we are as a…

— Ben Carson

“If modernity is, as I will argue, a global phenomenon, a Eurocentric approach is bound to mislead us. More recently, historians interested in world…

— David Christian

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we’ll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving…

— Ralph Peters