Circles Quote by Max Lucado

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

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

“One tries to get to the bottom of things, but it's all just a running around in circles. History is absurd, events escape the…

— Jacob G Rosenberg

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

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

— Joseph Joubert

I think history is just so cyclical.

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Idries Shah

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by…

— George W. Bush

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

— Emile M. Cioran

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill