History Quote by Hilary Mantel

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

— Arundhati Roy

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”

— Galinda Glinda

“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will…

— Ian Buruma

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— David Von Drehle

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

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 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

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

— Roger Rees

History is rooted in the future

— Terence McKenna

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

— Lawrence Durrell