Accuracy Quote by Tony Kushner

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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

— Earnest Hooton

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

— George W. Bush

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts…

— Ridley Scott

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

— Nancy Pickard

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

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding,…

— Geraldine Brooks

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

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by…

— Frank Herbert

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

— Henry L. Stimson

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

— Antony Beevor