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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
— T. S. Eliot
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
— Umberto Eco
His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
— Andrew Roberts
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
— Rebecca Goldstein
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
— John Shelby Spong
History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others.
— Steve Maraboli
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
— Andre Malraux
The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
— Niall Ferguson
History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.
— Edmund Burke
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.
— Will Durant
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
— Bernard-Henri Levy
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
— Otto Von Bismarck
History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.
— Janet Flanner
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
— Robert J. Allison
History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.
— Raymond E. Feist
Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.
— Stephen L. Carter
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
— Cate Blanchett
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
— Criss Jami
One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
— Andrew Roberts
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
— Joseph Joubert
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
— Pentti Linkola
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
— William Kristol
The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning.
— Harold Holzer
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.
— Emmuska Orczy
He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.
— James Carl Nelson
My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.
— Raymond E. Feist
Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou
— Mark Kurlansky
It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.
— Thomas L. Friedman
What happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history ...
— Peggy Herbert
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
— John Edgar Wideman
Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.
— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
— Walter Isaacson
If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.
— Gavin Mills
I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.
— Niall Ferguson
