Fear Quote by John Berger

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

— David Von Drehle

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

— Johan Huizinga

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

— Oliver Stone

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

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

The past is history , the present a gift and the future a dream

— Jason Lipshitz

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

— Arundhati Roy

We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past…

— Tariq Ramadan

If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you'll end up losing what you have in the…

— Nishan Panwar

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

— Victor Hugo

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