History Quote by Idries Shah

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

— Julian Barnes

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

— Elias Canetti

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— David Von Drehle

History is everything that has ever happened.

— Stephen Ambrose

History is history.

— Troy Vincent

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

— Johan Huizinga

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

— Arundhati Roy

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna