History Quote by Ambrose Bierce

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

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

— Mitch Rowland

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

— peter adejimi

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“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

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous