Quotes About Truth

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Beneath every history, another history.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

History is the distillation of rumour.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

History is not what happened but what is written down

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.