Events Quote by George Santayana

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Earnest Hooton

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...

— Voltaire

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 a lie commonly agreed upon.

— Oscar Wilde

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses

— Nancy Pickard

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

— Voltaire