Determine Quote by Stefan Zweig

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

— Jeanette Winterson

Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason…

— Robert Menzies

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

— Leo Tolstoy

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and…

— Anonymous

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

— Dagobert D. Runes

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings…

— Pope Leo XIII

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the…

— Orson Scott Card

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains…

— Lloyd deMause

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

— Gaby Hoffmann