Can do Quote by Herbert Butterfield

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

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

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

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

— Michael Howard

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

— Paul Valery

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

— Cynthia Ozick

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

— Thomas Jefferson

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