History Quote by David Hume

“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who have locked…

— R. N. Prasher

“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

“Opinions and ideas are quite different than provable facts.”

— Steven Redhead

“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

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Historical reality has two sides. One is made ​​up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.”

— Anonymous

“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to…

— Sara Sheridan