Dare Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings…

— Pope Leo XIII

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.

— William of Malmesbury

I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.

— Andrzej Duda

History is made by those who say no.

— Jon Savage

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

— Morgan Parker

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one…

— Noam Chomsky

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

— Robert Walpole