Forgetting Quote by Peter Geye

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

History is the memory of life

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

— W. C. Sellar

History is no more than memories refreshed.

— Peter Charles Newman

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten,…

— Matt Smith

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

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 a nation

— Thomas Sowell