History Quote by George Santayana

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

— George Santayana

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— George Santayana

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History is lie that can't be changed.”

— Jevon Scott

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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 a lie commonly agreed upon.

— Oscar Wilde

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“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 deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.”

— Elspeth Marr