Virginia Woolf Quotes

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

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

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

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

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

Time is a wonderful storyteller.

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

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

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

All history is contemporary history.

A lot of things in history change over time.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.