Defining Quote by Ken Burns

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

— Arundhati Roy

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

Our past has gone into history.

— William McKinley

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

— Johan Huizinga

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

— David Von Drehle

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

— Peter Greenaway

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb