Any Quote by Samuel E. Morison

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Childhood is but change made gay and visible.

— Alice Meynell

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.”

— Janet Flanner

History is more or less bunk.

— Henry Ford

We're not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more…

— Lindsay Ellis

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence…

— Edward Said

“Our concern with history is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth…

— W. G. Sebald

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

— W. C. Sellar

The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the…

— Gary DeMar

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins