Changes Quote by David Weinberger

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

— Terry Pratchett

“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves…

— Henning Mankell

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

— Terry Pratchett

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

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

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

— Oswald Spengler

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

— Antony Beevor

We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

— Erwin McManus

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

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

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

— Idries Shah