Divided Quote by William Ralph Inge

“Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.”

— William Ralph Inge

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event…

— H. W. Brands

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

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

History seems not so much a record of past events, more a catalogue of preferred beliefs expounded by people who have a vested interest.

— Anthony Storr

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

— Laura Anne Gilman

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and…

— John Dos Passos