History Quote by Steven Pinker

“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”

— Roxane Gay

“Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities…

— R.A. Salvatore

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

— Ken Burns

“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.”

— Terry Goodkind

“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we…

— Simon Reynolds

“But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven…

— Sydney J. Harris

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the…

— Shannon L. Alder

“we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don’t understand the world anymore, and…

— Kim S. Cameron

“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will…

— Ian Buruma

“But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the…

— Susan Sontag

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel