History Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Fable' is that it was such a rich world. It was, well, what the name says it is. It's all about… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Well, the most incredible thing about 'Fable' is the fact that there are lots of examples where people play the game in a certain… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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 will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
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 community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
