Bad Quote by Ruby Bridges

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae…

— Masha Gessen

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution…

— Edward R. Murrow

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

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

— Michael Howard

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten,…

— Matt Smith

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

— W. C. Sellar

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all…

— Atifete Jahjaga

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

— Anonymous

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset