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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

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may…

— Miguel de Cervantes

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

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

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

— Marc Bloch

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

— George Santayana

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

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

— Earnest Hooton

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

“History is not a fixed truth. It changes with the speaker.”

— Jenn Reese