Quotes About Perspective

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

History is a great dust heap.