Ibrahim Babangida Quotes

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

The general idea of history seems to be that it is the biography of a society…. History is to the common life of many what biography is to an individual.

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

One should live with history round one.

The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone. You can relate it to pretty much any time.

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.