Accidents Quote by Gretel Ehrlich

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 not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— David Von Drehle

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— Julian Barnes

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

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

— Elias Canetti

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and…

— Voltaire

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

— A. J. P. Taylor

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

— Jawaharlal Nehru

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel