History Quote by Michael Bywater

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

What is not recorded is not remembered.

— Benazir Bhutto

Let's say that history is what happened. The record of what happened is how each individual happens to see those events. They've already been…

— Russell Freedman

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

— Tatjana Soli

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very…

— Antony Beevor

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have…

— Robert Fisk

“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

It's important to interrogate history, it's important to document history, because as a society we need constant reminders of the things that we've done…

— Matana Roberts

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan