Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And especially in…

— Americo Castro

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed…

— Francis Parkman

“Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.”

— T.F. Hodge

“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not to those…

— Brian Dunning

“It wasn't enough just to read and study historical facts, whoever studied history should consider Themselves creators of history”

— U Aung San

“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects…

— Anonymous

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research…

— Natasha Trethewey

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and…

— Benjamin Franklin

“History should be studied but not worshipped.”

— Magnus Flyte

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman