Certainty Quote by Julian Barnes

History is an accumulation of error.

— Norman Cousins

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how…

— Alice Dreger

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living…

— David Grann

What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid…

— Julian Barnes

“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will…

— Ian Buruma

“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it…

— Aubrey Menen

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

— Jamaica Kincaid