History Quote by Steve Sagarra

“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.”

— Aldo Schiavone

“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to…

— Sara Sheridan

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries”

— Benjamin Franklin

“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

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.”

— Charles Darwin

“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”

— Mitch Rowland

“I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations…

— André Breton

“It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.”

— Kate Morton

“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?”

— Thomas Mann