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History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

— Terry Pratchett

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

— Terry Pratchett

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one…

— A. J. P. Taylor

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

— Jeanne C. Stein

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied…

— Paul Cartledge

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as…

— Ludmilla Jordanova

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

— David Von Drehle