History Quote by Frank Herbert

“Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE”

— Fela Durotoye

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“What I'm going to tell you now," he said, "may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts about the…

— Aldous Huxley

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“You told me once that history matters, but it's frozen, set in stone. This is part of our history. I can't change it or…

— Cora Carmack Finding It

“History is history. It's something to learn from, not repeat.”

— K. Weikel

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget.”

— Samantha Sotto

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel