5 Quotes on History from Books

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 5 quotes about History that I underlined from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

History Quotes

History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestors whispering inside. To understand history, we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells. - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
To be present in history, even as nothing more than a chuckle, was a universe away from being absent from it, from being written out of it altogether. A chuckle, after all, could become a foothold in the sheer wall of the future. - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Studying history was about scope, about understanding the terrain that surrounded the critical event. Nothing and no one existed in a vacuum. - Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
No secret in the history of the world has ever been successfully kept. The truth always comes out. - 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
The history of the world is the history of a ten-thousand-year war of brains between the rich and the poor. Each side is eternally trying to hoodwink the other side: and it has been this way since the start of time. - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga