George William Curtis Quotes

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

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.

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

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

Men live in history as never before …. we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

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

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

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

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

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

History is more or less bunk.

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

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

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

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

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.

I don't think you learn specific lessons from history, but you do learn proportion.

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

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

History is an instrument of the most genuine patriotic spirit

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

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

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.