History Quote by Ernest Dimnet

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

— David Von Drehle

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

— Adam Garfinkle

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

— Margaret MacMillan

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

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

— Michael Howard

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Paul Valery

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

— Arundhati Roy

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

— Frederick Douglass