History Quote by Neil MacGregor

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

— Rolf Hochhuth

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

— Frank Harte

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky

You can write your own history.

— Eric McCormack

If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku.

— H. W. Brands

“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This…

— Stephen Leacock

If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others…

— Margaret MacMillan

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

— Jacob M. Appel

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

— Winston Churchill

“You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo