History Quote by George Orwell

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”

— George Orwell

“In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“But history is so often molded from tainted clay by those who remain.”

— Pierce Brown

“She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

“History is never tidy.”

— Antony Beevor

“True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.”

— Victor Hugo

“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

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

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

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“History is chronicled by conquerors.”

— J. Tullos Hennig