Discworld Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Facts that have been forges into history first appear as incoherent text scribbled on aged paper. Only as we examine the whole of that…

— Ron Mayes

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“subject would largely have to have been a retraction. Because all the while, I was looking for lies to expose. No bit of information…

— Mary Mycio

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

“Yet historians still start their books with a ritual lament about 'the sources' and their inadequacy. The lament is not entirely insincere (though it…

— Mary Beard

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

— Aldo Schiavone

“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

“Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.”

— Jack Gantos

“A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance.”

— David McRaney

“Only through the careful study of historical documents can we prevent the distortion of where we came from and who we are as a…

— Ben Carson

“Who needed facts when fiction was so much more titillating?”

— Dee Tenorio

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace