Comparison Quote by Masha Gessen

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

— Oswald Spengler

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 just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter…

— Ruby Bridges

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories…

— Dinaw Mengestu

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't…

— David Lowery

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

— W. C. Sellar