Books Quote by Andreï Makine

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able…

— Mark Twain

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of mankind would…

— Ernest Becker

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it.”

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

— Mitch Rowland

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what…

— George Orwell

“History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget.”

— Samantha Sotto

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden