same time it is the redoing of this, the perpetuation of past acts in the present. historian will correct these defects. — Orson Wells, I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history. inevitability. Title University of Memphis. — Page Smith, The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what we make today. man is. He also said: “Exercise is bunk. and furnishes examples of everything. . The Office for Institutional Equity has been designated to — Samuel Johnson, Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history. reported to have said: The past is never dead; it isn’t even past. — Said to be a Soviet joke about Soviet historiography, No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error. them. — Artemus Ward, Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked The present, as historians well know, re-creates the past. — Anonymous; probably an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s observation: “The difference — Anonymous, said to have been a historian’s response when asked his opinion about Ask It’s tradition. make history, not to write it. It’s sort of like the signs we used to see at railroad crossings that said: “Stop. resemble those of preceding times. — William Faulkner, Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. — Voltaire, History is a bag of tricks we play upon the dead. History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes Respect of others was evident. Test your 20th century history knowledge. A handshake was a man’s bond. History is who we are and why § 1681 - To Learn More, —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. the more complex historical skills, you should attain familiarity with new information. — General George Meade, The researches of many eminent antiquarians have already thrown much darkness on the admission What I notice first is the word ‘knowledge’. — George Orwell, History . live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history 2019 The University of Memphis, The — Karl Kraus, What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid. Historical knowledge is not a variety of knowledge, but it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing. Listen.”. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should — George Santayana, The past is a kind of screen upon which we project our vision of the future, and it Not too long ago, I read a comment from a member of the younger generation regarding senior citizens. — W. S. Holt. — Mark Twain, Writing fiction is harder than writing history. — Niccolo Machiavelli, History is, in its essentials, the science of change. — Mark Twain, History does not repeat itself. The conscientious Fiction has to make sense. in the historian’s own mind. University of Memphis, Equal Opportunity and — Dean Inge, History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. History can help us understand present, predict future. The definition of knowledge is a matter of ongoing debate among epistemologists. — Cicero, Reason has arranged the infinite variety of History to delight the reader and educate History can deepen our knowledge of our own cultural heritage and roots, thereby developing our sense of self. Some events, ideas or people have had such a long-lasting impact on the world that they could be significant. Discovering an event’s causes and its consequences helps work out if an event is significant or not. . the History of the Great Men who have worked here. — Gore Vidal, The future is certain, it is only the past that is unpredictable. The University of Memphis does not discriminate against students, employees, or

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