Collectives Quote by Penelope Lively

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

— G. M. Trevelyan

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, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

— George Eliot

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

— Michael Howard

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

— Khalil Gibran

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

— Clint Eastwood

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

— Marjorie Garber

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

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

— David Von Drehle

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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell