Facts Quote by Brian Friel

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.”

— Richard Handler

“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

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”

— Galinda Glinda

“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

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

“History is dead until we make it live; but it is the lively interpretation of history that makes it interesting.”

— Robert J. Devaux

“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?”

— Thomas Mann