History Quote by Michael Gruber

“He said there are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is lost forever. The second is what most…

— Michael Gruber

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

“History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this point in…

— Ming-Dao Deng

“Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done…

— Hermann Hesse

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is…

— Yann Martel

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

— Elspeth Marr