History Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Lie Truth
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn't a tale told once,… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history - the facts of what happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“All the past is a lie. All history, all memories, all of it, are just illusions. None of it is who your are. The… — Don Elwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
