We are always very concerned about what is happening in the present as we live in it. As far as the future is concerned, we often tend to make plans for how we would like it to be. This leaves out the third aspect of time, the past. Though it might not seem as important when compared to the others, it is very important too. Maybe even more important. This is because the happenings of the past are what have led to the current, and none of this would exist if not for the past and the twist of events that it holds. It is for the same reasons, that a significant number of curious folk are attracted to the field and carry out various research.
The field of history and study of the past remains a vague and very intriguing topic no matter how many years pass. With extensive knowledge of the history of a civilization or a geographic location, one can find out the story of his or her existence. Hence, it is this basic history that forms the basic foundation for any person or thing to identify themself. Apart from that, it is history that serves as a backbone to whatever society that we have currently.
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History quotes
- Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells
- Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
- We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
- People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin
- History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
James Fenimore Cooper
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
- One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary… The enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilisation.
John Jay Chapman
- The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley
- If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling
- History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
- Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
- The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
- If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
Michael Crichton
- I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
Boris Becker
- The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Oscar Wilde
- History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant
- Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason Cooley
- No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.
Terri Guillemets
- There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
Michelle Obama
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James Baldwin
- Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history’s fingers, down it goes.
Alan Moore
- The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
Robert A. Heinlein
- History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
- History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
- History isn’t the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It’s more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
Julian Barnes
- The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky
- History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
Julian Barnes
- No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
Steve Maraboli
- History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
- History is a relay of revolutions.
Saul Alinsky
- Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
Jim Butcher
- Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
- History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
George Santayana
- History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
Emilie Autumn
- History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
Bill Watterson
- What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.
Leo Tolstoy
- The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
Raymond Queneau
- History is not the past but a map of the past, drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveller.
Henry Glassie
- History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
George R.R. Martin
- Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Hannah Arendt
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
- History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David McCullough
- The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
- I came to the UFC to make history.
Charles Oliveira
- History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.
Howard Zinn
- History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Kurt Vonnegut
- History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Mark Twain
- I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for ‘history’. The closest word for it is memory.
David Miliband
- The past changes a little every time we retell it.
Hilary Mantel
- The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
Lemony Snicket
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
- History is written by the winners.
Napoleon Bonaparte
- The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman
- She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn’t feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
Cassandra Clare
- History isn’t about dates and places and wars. It’s about the people who fill the spaces between them.
Jodi Picoult
- I was always a history buff.
Clive Cussler
Conclusion
To wrap things up, one can surely say that it is from historic evidence that we come to know about the various national treasures, institutes, wars, interesting personalities, and more. Many cultures and locations often hold very interesting and surprising explanations regarding many of the currently existing crises and even scientific research studies. Hence, history is always something worth your attention.
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