Collections Quote by C. V. Wedgwood

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

— Douglas Coupland

“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

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but…

— James Anthony Froude

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

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

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

— Gordon S. Wood