Henry Ford Quotes

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

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive.

History is too serious to be left to historians.

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

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

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

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

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.

While we read history we make history.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

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

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

One test of a great work of history is does it make you feel like you have lived through the period

Modern history is like a deaf person who is in the habit of answering questions that no one has put to them.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals

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

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

I don't think you can erase history.

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

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

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

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Leave history to historians.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?