Approach Quote by Leonard Krieger

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

— Noam Chomsky

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

— Lord Acton

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

— Erik Erikson

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

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

— Peter Greenaway

History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.

— Kiera Cass

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove