Barney Frank Quotes

History is the science of what never happens twice.

History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

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

I like American history.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Making history whole is about uncovering secrets.

History is not ancestral memory or collective tradition. It is what people learned from priests, schoolmasters, the writers of history books, and the compilers of magazine articles and TV programs.

A nation builds museums to understand its own history and to have its history understood by others, to create a common space and language to address collectively what is too difficult to process individually.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

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