History Quote by Terence McKenna

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

— Antony Beevor

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for…

— N. T. Wright

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

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

— Oswald Spengler

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind…

— F. M. Powicke

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

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

— Gwen Ifill

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

— Robert Penn Warren

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset