Culture Quote by Rollo May

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

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

— Johan Huizinga

emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives,…

— Anonymous

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

— Jim Leach

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

— R. A. Salvatore

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone.…

— Baron Davis

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume