History Quote by Rene Girard

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

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

“I wish to make it clear that ‘history’ in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this…

— Karl R. Popper

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't…

— David Lowery

Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you…

— Philippe Falardeau

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

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

— Anonymous

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

— Frederick Busch

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But…

— Robert Darnton

“History has no meaning.”

— Karl R. Popper