Being Quote by Wilma Mankiller

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about…

— Toni Morrison

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history…

— James W. Loewen

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering,…

— David McCullough

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

— G. Willow Wilson

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and…

— Pearl S. Buck

“History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where…

— Reg Whitaker

“If modernity is, as I will argue, a global phenomenon, a Eurocentric approach is bound to mislead us. More recently, historians interested in world…

— David Christian

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

— Thabo Mbeki

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we…

— Nikki Giovanni

“If we cannot agree on what was important yesterday, what more on events that happened a hundred or three hundred years ago? The point…

— Ambeth Ocampo

“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human race over…

— Steven Pinker

“History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this point in…

— Ming-Dao Deng