History Quote by Paul Kriwaczek

“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the…

— Claire North

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell of a…

— John Powell

“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied…

— Paul Cartledge

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

“History is written by every generation. Every generation writes its own history using the same sources. The interpretations vary according to time.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo