God alone knows the future, but only an historian can…

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of…

— Alice Corbin Henderson

“The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century. {Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll }”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God knows the future, you don't. So stop worrying and make wise decisions. Trust him with the results.

— Anonymous

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can…

— Charles Stanley

“It’s much the same dilemma that a future historian would face if he had to depict the social world of twenty-first-century teenagers solely on…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay,…

— Naomi Oreskes

The past cannot be changed, no matter how you feel about it. Wrong done neither alter the past nor make you a better person.…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“We can’t alter our past, but we can shape our future. We can end well.”

— Barry Banther

Changing the story doesn't alter the past. Our past makes us who we are but how we deal with it shows the metal we're…

— Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell

“We can never alter our past but we can always change our future!”

— Timothy Pina

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians

— Samuel Butler

“‎I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.”

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into victory and…

— Franz Wright

“Each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“We alter the past for the sake of the future, memories bending like light.”

— Matt Gallagher