Quotes About Perspective

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

History's a resource.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.