History Quote by Terry Nardin

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.”

— Anonymous

“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act…

— Diane Ravitch

“STORY” is more than half of the word “HISTORY”. And that’s no accident.”

— Glenn Beck

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks…

— Harold Percival

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage…

— Eric Foner

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically…

— Arthur Goldberg

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

— Peter Conrad

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

“Once you know that there are no purposes, you also know that there is no accident; for it is only beside a world of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

— Napoleon Bonaparte