Accumulation Quote by Andrew Marr

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

History is an argument without end.

— Pieter Geyl

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

— George Orwell

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

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 justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

— Paul Valery

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a…

— Jill Lepore

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one…

— Noam Chomsky

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to…

— Sue Monk Kidd