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History is written backwards but lived forwards.

— Madeleine Albright

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming…

— Terry Eagleton

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

— Aidan Chambers

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

— Michael Howard

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb

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

— David Von Drehle

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

— Hannah Arendt

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

— Gary Hamel

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 unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill