Bad Quote by Tony Judt

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

— Oliver Stone

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

— Paul Pierce

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

— Ludwig von Mises

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

— John F. Kennedy

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

— Peter Kuznick