History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
History is history.