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What Is History Quotes

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte

What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?'
'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.
'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated....
'Finn?'
'"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)
- Julian Barnes

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
- Alan Bennett

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
- Dan Brown

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on..
- Voltaire

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
- Henry Miller

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- Victor Hugo

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.
- Jon Krakauer

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
- Thomas Sowell

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