Revision is the lifeblood of historical scholarship. History is a continuing dialogue between the present and the past. Interpretations of the past are subject to change in response to new evidence, new questions asked of the evidence, new perspectives gained by the passage of time. There is no single, eternal, and immutable “truth” about past […]
History Quotes
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
History – its what those bitter old men write.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of […]
History belongs to the winner.
Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
