Quotes About Truth

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

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

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

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.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

History passes the final judgment

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.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

All history is a lie!

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.