Historical Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied…

— Paul Cartledge

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of…

— Artur Davis

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

— Martin Heidegger

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than…

— Nicolas Chamfort

History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a…

— Benjamin Hooks

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

— Alfred de Vigny