History Quote by Anselm Kiefer

History is history. What is done is done.

— Sister Souljah

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 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 the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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 the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Michael Howard

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

“Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. People make history when they scale a mountain, ignite a bomb, or refuse to move…

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough