Every day Quote by Robert Brockway

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace

“History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“Every man has a history worth knowing, if he could tell it, or if we could draw it from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“Enlighten your life with history.”

— Elaine C. Shigley

“Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life,…

— John Milton

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“I have always thought that if I had been allowed to read history more constantly, instead of losing my time in studies for which…

— Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

“We have the most complete and instant access to information in all of history, and we’re using it to watch funny cat videos.”

— Jean M. Twenge

“We have to know the truth about our past to discover our future.”

— Patti Callahan Henry