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In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings
— Daisaku Ikeda
History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
— Brian Friel
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
— June Callwood
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
— Joichi Ito
Facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences.
— Michel-Rolph Trouillot
I'm a history major, baby. I know tons of useless facts
— Elle Kennedy
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
— Charles Spurgeon
A historian cannot pick and choose his facts; he must deal with all the evidence.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
— Renee Fleming
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
— Andrew Marr
Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
— Edward Hallett Carr
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
— William Carlos Williams
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
— Alice Miller
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.
— John Steinbeck
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
— Shlomo Sand
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .
— Thomas Hobbes
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I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
— Eleanor Antin
These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops.
— Noam Chomsky
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
— Cate Blanchett
After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
— Hippolyte Taine
Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove.
— Cary Carson
I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.
— William Of Malmesbury
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
— Steven Pinker
It takes three facts to make a truth.
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds
— Carl Sagan
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
— Joseph Joubert
These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
— Nelson Mandela
The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.
— Walter Shaw Sparrow
I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
— Anatoli Boukreev
Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
— Stephen Kinzer
History, facts and truth are all Divine Products, and must prevail.
— Charles Augustus Briggs
These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.
— Aldous Huxley
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
— Charles Spurgeon
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
— Ronald Reagan
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
— Edward Hallett Carr
In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.
— Mallory Ortberg
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
— James Dwight Dana
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
— Felix Frankfurter
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.
— Mason Cooley
Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.
— Carter Dickson
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
— Ernest Renan
My subject is History of Magic," he said in his dry, wheezy voice. "I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He
— J.K. Rowling
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
— Charlie Chaplin
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy
— Seamus Costello
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
— Tom Bissell
History is but a confused heap of facts.
— Lord Chesterfield
