Quotes About Reality

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

All history is a lie!