History Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.”

— Megan Smolenyak

“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 a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell

“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

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of…

— David Grann

“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and studying that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.”

— Niall Ferguson

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

“history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true.  We only hear the stories the victor wants told.  The remaining stories, the…

— H.K. Savage

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi