Force Quote by G. M. Trevelyan

“Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is…

— Yann Martel

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

— George W. Bush

“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

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

— Penelope Lively

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

— Jeanette Winterson

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

— Ludwig von Mises

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any…

— G. M. Trevelyan

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

— Frederic William Maitland

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

— Hilary Mantel