History Quote by Louis de Bernières

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget.”

— Samantha Sotto

“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able…

— Mark Twain

“We are surrounded by various histories and fragments from the ages. Some are true. Some are only the approximation of truth. Some truths are…

— Jeff Wheeler

“Who is this historian who can say that he's telling the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth. Nobody, because you're human.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and…

— Paul Murray

“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”

— Michelle Richmond

“We should never, ever believe life- or history- holds no surprises for us. That way lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the…

— Kay Hooper

“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.”

— Elspeth Marr

“The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.”

— Chris Galford