History Quote by Ramon Presson

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present,…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“By trying to understand the past on its own terms, the historian treats it with integrity rather than manipulating it or superimposing his or…

— John Fea

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.

— Anonymous

“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”

— Margaret Coel

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb

“The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say…

— Shawn M Mcnamara

Our past has gone into history.

— William McKinley

“If we are going to revisit the past, let us go there only to learn from our past mistakes, and not to make it…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The Past Is Written on Your Face once we see ourselves in that much bigger context we are a mere blip in time we…

— Anonymous