God Quote by Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

— Samuel Butler

“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in…

— Samuel Butler

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

— Samuel Butler

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

— Ambrose Bierce

Even God cannot change the past.

— Agathon

“Not even God can change the past.”

— Nadeem Aslam

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

— Albert Camus

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

— Heather Cox Richardson

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change…

— Frank Herbert

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.…

— E. M. Forster

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the…

— Albert Camus