History is philosophy taught with examples. --Lord Bolingbroke

 "Not to know what happened before one was born is always to remain a child." -- Cicero

Knowledge of history is the precondition of political intelligence. -- Nash & Crabtree

History is herstory, too.  -- Author Unknown

History is telling stories. -- Barbara Tuchman

If I say to you the king died and then the queen died, that's a sequence of events. If I say the king died and the queen died of grief, that's a story. That's human. That calls for empathy on the part of the teller of the story and of the reader or listener to the story. -- E.M. Forster