History Quote by Robert E. Lee

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

— Polybius

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things…

— Philip Pullman

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

— Whoopi Goldberg

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

— Leon Trotsky

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses

— Nancy Pickard

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

— Norodom Sihanouk

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago