Quotes About Interpretation

Beneath every history, another history.

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

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

History is the distillation of rumour.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

History is not what happened but what is written down

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

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

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.

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.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

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

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

People have different ways of interpreting history.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

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

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.