Age Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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 really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— David Von Drehle

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl

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

— Rita Dove

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as…

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Elias Canetti

Only those who have studied the past can create history in the present; can predict the future. Such history should be science-based fact.

— M. K. Stalin

A lot of things in history change over time.

— Jeb Bush