Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

You cannot not know history.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

History is not a blueprint for present practice.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

History is on every occasion the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

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

Most of us get our history through story.

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

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

History happens all around us.

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present

History is what we would make of it.

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.

History is simply man’s desperate bid to give substance to his most visionary dreams.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

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.

History is a table around which we can still sit and have a civil discourse.

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.

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

History is very much bound up in family experience.

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.