Historians Quote by Rafael Sabatini

“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able…

— Mark Twain

“He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and…

— Gregory Maguire

“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet”

— Andreï Makine

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his…

— Marc Bloch

“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”

— Michelle Richmond

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“... Such a scribe you pay and praise for putting life in stones, Fire into fog, making the past your world. There's plenty of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: “He preferred the hard truth to his…

— Carl Sagan

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”

— Paula Wall

“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