Comfort Quote by Claude Bowers

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

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

— Runoko Rashidi

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 the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

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 what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

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

— David McCullough

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

— David Von Drehle

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

— Peter Greenaway

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to…

— Humberto Maturana

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to…

— Carl Sandburg