Essentials Quote by Frederic William Maitland

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

— W. C. Sellar

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought…

— Michael Gruber

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history…

— James W. Loewen

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna