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“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

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 principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

— Madeleine Albright

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“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

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the…

— Russell Kirk

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

— David Christian

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones…

— Carroll Quigley

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga