Quotes About Perspective

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

There is no history, only histories.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.