About yourself Quote by Jennifer Donnelly

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

— David Von Drehle

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 isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.

— Kiera Cass

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

— Arundhati Roy

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

— John W. Gardner

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

— Donald Trump

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— Johan Huizinga

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

— Michael Howard

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

History lets you know exactly where you are today. And if you pay attention to it, it gives you a broad perspective of everyone.…

— Baron Davis

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

— John Henrik Clarke