Burning Quote by Will Durant

“History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble…

— Alastair Reynolds

“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the…

— Claire North

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

— William Shakespeare

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness…

— F. Sionil José

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

History is a bucket of ashes.

— Samuel Butler

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

“One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge”

— Shashi Tharoor

“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past…

— Theodor W. Adorno

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore