History Quote by Norman F. Cantor

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

— Max Lucado

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

— Simon Schama

“After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads. The moments of change, or the clinamen…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.”

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to…

— Mary Beard

“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a circular trajectory,…

— Ocean Vuong

“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

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the Universe of…

— William Bolitho

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any…

— G. M. Trevelyan