Be true Quote by Sandi Toksvig

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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

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

— George Santayana

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

— W. C. Sellar

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard