History Quote by A. J. P. Taylor

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

— Ken Burns

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically…

— Grace Lee Boggs

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

— Anonymous

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt