Be true Quote by Samuel E. Morison

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a…

— Matthew Arnold

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

— Peter Morgan

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is…

— Henry Adams

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

— Ernest Renan

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

— Andreï Makine

I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.

— William of Malmesbury

“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian…

— Halldor Laxness

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not…

— Mark Twain

“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.”

— Richard Dawkins