Endless Quote by Noam Chomsky

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

— Edmund Snow Carpenter

“History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.”

— Ladislas Farago

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

— Gertrude Stein

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

— Tony Judt

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

— David P. Thelen

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

— Henry Adams

History is a record of exploded ideas.

— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

History's worst habit: it does repeat itselF

— Mak_786

Things that change history tend to be organized.

— David Brooks

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