Causes Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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 a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

“History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of…

— Christopher Hill

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— George Santayana

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

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

— Michael Howard

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we're in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

— Jeb Bush

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to…

— Humberto Maturana