Accepting Quote by John Dos Passos

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest.

— Anthony Storr

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

— William Ralph Inge

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

— Craig D. Idso

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

— Samuel Johnson

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in…

— C. V. Wedgwood

We don't let the past determine the future unless we allow it too.

— Anonymous

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Arundhati Roy

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

— Isaac Marion

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

— Heather Cox Richardson