Complexity Quote by Stephanie Coontz

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

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

— Penelope Lively

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

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

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

— Douglas Hurd

“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

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether…

— Noam Chomsky

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

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

It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

— James Gleick