History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
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.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History is history. What is done is done.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.