Faith Quote by Alan Bennett

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.”

— Katherine Ann Porter

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History in live performance.”

— Arundhati Roy

“It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.”

— R.A. McCandless

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of…

— David McCullough

“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.”

— Terry Pratchett

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

“People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past…

— Aporva Kala