History Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which…

— Ludwik Fleck

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest.

— Anthony Storr

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari