Events Quote by Ambrose Bierce

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time…

— John Henrik Clarke

History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

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 not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access…

— Colm Toibin

Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you…

— Philippe Falardeau

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

— George Santayana

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

— Peter Greenaway

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig