Battle Quote by Samuel Johnson

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts…

— Ridley Scott

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an…

— Félix J. Palma

“There is no room in History for conjecture. History is fact because it deals with facts, you’ll learn in time...' 'Fuck that, man. That’s…

— D.L. Christopher

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the…

— Orson Scott Card

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the…

— Albert Camus

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and…

— Thomas Carlyle