History Quote by Paul Ham

emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives,…

— Anonymous

The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he…

— Georg Brandes

“Historians often minimize or discount the impact that any one individual can have on human destiny-and for good reason. Given the broad tides in…

— Kevin Fedarko

“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

“It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some…

— Norman Davies

“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act…

— Diane Ravitch

“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.”

— Penelope Lively

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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