Better Quote by Tariq Ramadan

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

— John Berger

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

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

— Hilary Mantel

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“Without a good understanding of history how can we make informed and therefore good and sensible decisions about current issues? The future then can…

— Keith Tonkin

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

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

“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit that the…

— Hermann Hesse

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare…

— Alan Bullock