Quotes About Context

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

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.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

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.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

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You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

People have different ways of interpreting history.