Any Quote by Michael Hirst

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

— Henry L. Stimson

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

— Frederic William Maitland

Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is…

— Anonymous

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

— Steven Knight

I don't know much about history.

— Bob Mortimer

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

— Ali Smith

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about…

— Andrew Stanton

There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.

— Jay Blades

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich