Big book Quote by James Ellroy

“I’m a teacher of history in a high school in Saint Paul and what I know from my studies and from my life is…

— William Kent Krueger

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

— Michael Hirst

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

— Steven Knight

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

— Honore de Balzac

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

— William Ralph Inge

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

— Anonymous

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

— Jonathon Keats

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event

— John Turturro

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often…

— Fernand Braudel