History Quote by E. L. Doctorow

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

— David Von Drehle

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

— Michael Howard

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

— Arundhati Roy

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Jeanne C. Stein

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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 the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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