Able Quote by Terry Pratchett

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

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

— Ron Chernow

History is change happening one person at a time.

— Matt Damon

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people,…

— Terry Pratchett

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

— Terry Pratchett

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

— Frederik Pohl

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

— David Grann

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein