History Quote by Roland Joffe

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— David Von Drehle

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see…

— Jack Finney

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

— Johan Huizinga

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about…

— Toni Morrison

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

— Michael Howard

Only those who have studied the past can create history in the present; can predict the future. Such history should be science-based fact.

— M. K. Stalin

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

The past is all we know of the future.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

— Carlton Cuse

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone