Action Quote by Benjamin Hooks

History is history. What is done is done.

— Sister Souljah

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

— Peter Kuznick

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michael Howard

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

— George Carlin

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

— Idries Shah

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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 portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti