Attention Quote by Tim Crane

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of…

— Carroll Quigley

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to…

— Malcolm X

“Our concern with history is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth…

— W. G. Sebald

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

— Andrzej Duda

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of…

— Allan Nevins

“Why are these historical observations interesting?...they suggest that we should be careful about attributing our distinction between philosophy and science to earlier thinkers…The examples…

— Daniel Garber

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

— Michael Ondaatje

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears…

— Michel Foucault