Answers Quote by W. H. Auden

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

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— Ambrose Bierce

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

History is the science of people.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

— Leo Tolstoy

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough

History is past politics; and politics present history.

— Anonymous

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells