Clear Quote by Jane Jacobs

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

— David Weinberger

A lot of things in history change over time.

— Jeb Bush

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

— Terry Pratchett

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 has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

— Terry Pratchett

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

— Richelle Mead

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Elias Canetti

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

History is change happening one person at a time.

— Matt Damon