Quotes about Perspective
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
— Walt Whitman
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
— George Bernard Shaw
Things look different when history is seen as His-story.
— Peter Kreeft
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
— Carl Sagan
One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.
— George W. Bush
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
— Will Rogers
I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.
— George W. Bush
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
— NT Wright
No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
— Matt Chandler
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
— St. Jerome