Always Quote by Tansy Rayner Roberts

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

— David Frum

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts,…

— Howard Zinn

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

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

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

— Stephen Colbert

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

— George Santayana

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, 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 can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet…

— Thomas Sowell

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and…

— Peter Morgan