History Quote by W. C. Sellar Download Open image “History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.” — W. C. Sellar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Memory Remember Thinking
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 Copy Share Image
History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know. — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much… — Peter Geye Copy Share Image
History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting… — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to… — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
