Roger Mudd Quotes

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

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

I think you can learn from history.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

We learn from history. That's what it's all about.

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

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

There is no such thing as a final draft of history.

The context of history proved invaluable.

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

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.

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

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

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.

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

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

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.

In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.