History Quote by Megan Smolenyak Download Open image ““The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.”” — Megan Smolenyak ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Perspective Truth
“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” — Thomas Berger Copy Share Image
“The reason why truth is so hard to be revealed is because there are so many current practices that would soon turn into a… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?” — Laura Dave Copy Share Image
“that the truth is finer and that the only answers each of us hears are to the questions we are capable of asking.” — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.” — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
“In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted… — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image