History Quote by Haruki Murakami

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

— Frederic William Maitland

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

— Michael Hirst

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

— Jennifer Stone

“The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

— Terry Pratchett

“What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our…

— Agnes Mary Clerke

... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.

— Otto E. Neugebauer

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves…

— Henning Mankell

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

— Celia Green

“Because we don't know, do we? Everyone knows… How what happens the way it does? What underlies the anarchy of the train of events,…

— Philip Roth

“In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have…

— Cormac McCarthy

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

— Albert Einstein