Areas Quote by Edward Jay Epstein

The facts are always less than what really happened.

— Nadine Gordimer

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

— William Ralph Inge

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

— Iain Duncan Smith

History is not what happened but what is written down

— Kathleen McGowan

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that experience shows such an endeavour to be…

— John William Strutt

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

— Frederic William Maitland

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see…

— David Icke

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

— Douglas Adams