Quotes About Truth

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

History is no criminal court

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

There is no history, only histories.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

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

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

History is fables agreed upon.