Currents Quote by Ludwik Fleck

History is only a confused heap of facts

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— David Von Drehle

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

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

— Lord Acton

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of…

— Benedetto Croce

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

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

— Octavia Spencer

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna