Cases Quote by Will Durant

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem…

— Paul Johnson

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't…

— Richard Lewontin

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter