Bunch Quote by Sarah Vowell

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

— Sarah Vowell

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when…

— Anonymous

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again -…

— Thomas Sowell

“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of…

— Livy

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering,…

— David McCullough

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

— Penelope Lively

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it…

— Greg Proops

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

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what…

— Nikki Giovanni

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell

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