Frame Quote by Lindsay Ellis

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

— Douglas Hurd

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make…

— Gerry Adams

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Why not admit history's power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than…

— Lorrie Moore

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

— Umberto Eco

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

— Carl Sagan