History Quote by Penelope Lively

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

— Ralph Davis

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

— Henry Giroux

History is the memory of life

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids,…

— Wendy Griswold

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

— I. L. Peretz

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

— Tony Judt

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister