History Quote by Romila Thapar

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it…

— Aubrey Menen

“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and…

— David McCullough

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been…

— David Hume

“The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And especially in…

— Americo Castro

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.”

— arundhati roy

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where…

— Reg Whitaker

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to…

— F. Sionil Jose