Funny Quote by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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

— Julian Barnes

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Frederic William Maitland

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

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

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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 past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

— A. Whitney Brown

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

— Idries Shah

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

— Lewis H. Lapham

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