Bottom Quote by Thomas Carlyle

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

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

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in…

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Peter Greenaway

“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about time gone…

— Andy Andrews

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

— Winston Churchill

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

— Barack Obama

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti