History Quote by Joseph Brodsky

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

— Nancy Pickard

History is an accumulation of error.

— Norman Cousins

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— George Santayana

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

— Colum McCann

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

— George Santayana

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by…

— Frank Herbert

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Earnest Hooton

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

There's nothing like history. I don't make mistakes today that I made many years ago, because I've already made them.

— Tilman J. Fertitta