Certain Quote by John Malkovich

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it…

— S.J. Watson

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

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

— Thomas Hobbes

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an…

— Félix J. Palma

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

— Roy Basler

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

— Rebecca Wells

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

— Walter Darby Bannard

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte