Helping Quote by Douglas Coupland

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

— Peter Greenaway

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 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

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

Our past has gone into history.

— William McKinley

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral…

— C. V. Wedgwood

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

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 keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

— David Weinberger

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

— Arundhati Roy