Branches Quote by Lord Acton

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

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

— Peter Greenaway

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough

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 the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which…

— Ludwik Fleck

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

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

— Erik Erikson

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

— David Von Drehle

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

— Arundhati Roy