History Narrative Quotes

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

History is only very rarely the story of inevitabilities,” he says, “and it almost never appears in that form to its participants.

Where the government is a government of the people, it is essential that the history be a history of the people. The history of a democracy ought not to be an Iliad.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.