“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.”
More from Salman Rushdie on History
“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
“History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it.”
Others on History
Karl Marx
5 quotes“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Thomas Carlyle
4 quotes“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
Otto von Bismarck
4 quotes“The main thing is to make history, not to write it”
Dan Brown
3 quotes“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 quotes“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”
Edmund Burke
3 quotes“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”
Sir Winston Churchill
2 quotes“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.”
Julian Barnes
2 quotes“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation...”
Tocqueville
2 quotes“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
Chuck Palahniuk
2 quotes“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”