Ends Quote by Lord Acton

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

History is an argument without end.

— Pieter Geyl

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

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 needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

— Joseph Joubert

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent…

— George C. Marshall

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

— Henry Adams

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten,…

— Matt Smith

History can just be so unkind as time passes.

— Joshua Henry