Book Quote by Félix J. Palma

“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

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

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

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

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is…

— George Orwell

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

— Jesmyn Ward

It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't…

— David Lowery

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the…

— Orson Scott Card