History Quote by Stephen K. Ray

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“I wish to make it clear that ‘history’ in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this…

— Karl R. Popper

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely…

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from…

— Barbara Quick

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“Don't let history write itself for you.”

— Christine Stobbe

“What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer