History Quote by Dale Jamieson

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

— Michael Howard

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to…

— Mary Beard

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

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

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

— Paul Valery

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who…

— David McCullough

A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly.…

— Lucy Worsley

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

History is of all subjects the one which is most engaged with people's perceptions of themselves, identity, politics, all those things which shape the…

— Kwasi Kwarteng