Current Quote by Norman Davies

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

— Jeanette Winterson

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

— Salman Rushdie

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

— Joseph J. Ellis

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one…

— A. J. P. Taylor

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

— Douglas Coupland

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

— Lewis H. Lapham

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

— Penelope Lively

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

— E. L. Doctorow

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

“History repeating itself is history's oldest story.”

— Steve Wick

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl