History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to…

I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.

— Anonymous

If You Don't Start, It's Certain You Won't Arrive.

— Anonymous

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.

— George Orwell

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

— George Orwell

“The knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.”

— Claude Adrien Helvétius

“Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that…

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of…

— Don DeLillo

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

— John Terraine

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

— Simone Weil

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

— Ed Asner

“For the materialist historian, every epoch with which he occupies himself is only a fore-history of that which really concerns him. And that is…

— Walter Benjamin

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

— Immortal Technique

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere,…

— Louis L'Amour

“He’d seen for the first time how easily one might neglect those one loved by chasing the big story, the big lie that history…

— Alex Christofi