Arise Quote by Wilfrid Sheed

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to…

— Louis Moreau Gottschalk

“History has a clear and distinct voice, but it does not force itself upon us uninvited. History”

— Stephen K. Ray

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

— Gordon S. Wood

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the…

— Adam Hochschild

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

— Ferdinand Marcos

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago…

— Gustave Flaubert