History Quote by Ali Smith

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

— Kristin Cashore

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little…

— Daniel Kahneman

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

— Christopher Jackson

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as…

— Anonymous

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been…

— Richard Misrach

I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient.

— Ellen Ullman

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.

— Jay Blades

Every person has a story and just because you know a part of it doesn't mean you know the whole story.

— Nishan Panwar