Garth Brooks Quotes

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

I have never known a great deal about any of the historical figures I have written about until I actually started researching the book. If I knew a great deal about the person, I would not have been interested in writing the book.

One test of a great work of history is does it make you feel like you have lived through the period

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

I write to learn the flow of history.

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

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.