History Quote by Jodi Picoult

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

— David Von Drehle

History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of…

— David McCullough

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

— Arundhati Roy

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

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 is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— Peter Greenaway

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

— George Santayana

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the…

— Dexter Perkins

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

— Penelope Lively