Historian Quote by Robin G. Collingwood

All history is the history of thought,

— Robin G. Collingwood

“The history of thought - or of reason - is like this river. The thoughts that are washed along with the current of past…

— Jostein Gaarder

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they…

— Israel Rosenfield

“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

— Umberto Eco

“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied…

— Paul Cartledge

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak