Backwards Quote by Terry Eagleton

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

— Madeleine Albright

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly…

— Anonymous

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

— Jim Leach

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

— Gary Hamel

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

— Alan Bean

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

— Hilary Mantel

History is rooted in the future

— Terence McKenna

“When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and adjust our timeline. By…

— Erik Pevernagie

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

— David McCullough

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

— Michael Howard

Knowledge of the past is what enables us to mark our forward progress.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson