Currents Quote by Annie Leonard

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

— David Von Drehle

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

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

— Paul Kingsnorth

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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 just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

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

— Arundhati Roy

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Ken Burns