Ability Quote by Sarah Harrison

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very…

— Antony Beevor

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

— Voltaire

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records,…

— George F. Kennan

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of…

— Opal Tometi

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn

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

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

— Erik Erikson

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done…

— Matana Roberts