Bovine Quote by Revilo P. Oliver

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

— Antonio Tabucchi

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

— Seamus Heaney

History is the zoology of the human race.

— Franz Grillparzer

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

— Ted Koppel

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

— Erik Erikson

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what…

— Learned Hand

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

— James Bryce

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

— Karl Marx

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

— Bettany Hughes