History Quote by David Grann

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

— Kate Atkinson

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

While we read history we make history.

— George William Curtis

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 what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

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

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

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

— Peter Greenaway

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

— Terry Eagleton

People who are creating history don't realize they're creating it at the time it's happening.

— Alexander Dreymon