Existence Quote by Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians

— 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

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

— Samuel Butler

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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 only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

— Albert Camus

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

— Heather Cox Richardson

Even God cannot change the past.

— Agathon

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

— Bill Johnson