Arranging Quote by Johan Huizinga

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

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

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

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

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

— Donald Trump

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 is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

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

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Earnest Hooton

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner