Quotes About Truth

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Error has never approached my spirit.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

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

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

The first rough draft of history.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.