Backgrounds Quote by Thomas Carlyle

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . .…

— Gaston Bachelard

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

— Norman O. Brown

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no…

— Milan Kundera

“That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is…

— Victor Hugo

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

— Runoko Rashidi

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence…

— Henry David Thoreau

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

— Emile M. Cioran

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero