Always Quote by Alice Dreger

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

— Julian Barnes

There's nothing like history. I don't make mistakes today that I made many years ago, because I've already made them.

— Tilman J. Fertitta

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and…

— Peter Morgan

History is an accumulation of error.

— Norman Cousins

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living…

— David Grann

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter…

— Elia Suleiman

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.

— Jeanette

If we are suppose to forget about the past, why do we have to take history class anyway?

— Anonymous