Dean Inge Quotes

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

History is more or less bunk.

Leave history to historians.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

History is too serious to be left to historians.

History is not just a story related by a fool.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all

History is a picture gallery where there are few originals and many copies.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

I think you can learn from history.

As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.