The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain.
Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.