History Quote by Frank Fairfield

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

— Peter Greenaway

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 merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices…

— James Howard Kunstler

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

— Jeremy Rifkin

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than…

— Philip Wylie

I don't know much about history.

— Bob Mortimer

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

— Jeanne C. Stein

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

— Keith Allen

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

— David Grann

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we…

— Antony Beevor

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less…

— Henry Ford

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly