Quotes About Truth

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.