History Quote by Rick Perlstein

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough

I'm a big sports history buff. I love sports.

— Kenny Chesney

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

— Usain Bolt

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

History is a game played backwards only.

— Marge Piercy

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

— Steve Berry

History is past politics; and politics present history.

— Anonymous

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway