Archaeologists Quote by Adrienne Rich

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

— Adrienne Rich

I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it…

— David Ebershoff

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

— Colum McCann

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

— Polybius

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

— Ben Harper

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

— Joss Whedon

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

— Dean Kamen

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses

— Nancy Pickard

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

— Victor Hugo

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

— Oliver Jeffers

“History is a narrative enterprise, and the telling of stories that are true, that affirm and explain our existence, is the fundamental task of…

— Ken Liu