Diary Quote by T.L. Rese

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History is what people want to remember.”

— Jane Stevenson

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”

— Cara Black

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

“I understand that my memories are important to history.”

— Clint Hill

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“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

“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.”

— Leah Bobet

“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you…

— Richelle Mead