Different ways Quote by Robert Graves

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also…

— Walter Raleigh

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will…

— Anonymous

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it…

— Sean DeLauder

“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

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.”

— Oscar Wilde

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“History is what men choose to remember. Truth is what a man cannot forget.”

— Samantha Sotto

“in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its…

— Philip Pullman

History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as…

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana