History Quote by Theodore Strauss

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses

— Nancy Pickard

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

— Paul Auster

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

— George Santayana

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“HIstory collects secrets like politicians collect lies.”

— Steve Robinson

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

— George Santayana

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is…

— George Orwell

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

— Joseph Brodsky

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

— George Orwell

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

— Colum McCann

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott