Events Quote by 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 everything that has ever happened.

— Stephen Ambrose

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

— Idries Shah

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 often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

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

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion.…

— Meg Rosoff

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

— Frederic William Maitland