History Quote by Paul Kingsnorth

Most of us get our history through story.

— Yann Martel

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Michael Howard

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution…

— Edward R. Murrow

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

— Kristin Cashore

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

— Joseph Boyden

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

— Annie Leonard

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

— Erik Erikson

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