History Quote by Henry Ford

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me.…

— Henry Ford

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

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

— Peter Greenaway

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices…

— James Howard Kunstler

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

— David Grann

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

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

— David Von Drehle

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history…

— Henry Ford

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree