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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

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. — Lucien Febvre

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

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted. — Toba Beta

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough. — Louis L'Amour

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history. — Robert Fulghum

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

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts. — Daikichi Irokawa

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

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E.L. Doctorow

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. — Shlomo Sand

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe. — Jen Lilley

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts. — Peter Kuznick

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History . — Thomas Hobbes

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

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

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things. — Isvari

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

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history. — Karl Barth

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

Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement. — Clara Zetkin

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

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings. — Helen Cam

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

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. — Stacy Schiff

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

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. — Sarah Churchwell

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

When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit. — Julie Berry

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 historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. — E.H. Carr

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas. — N. T. Wright

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. — James Dwight Dana

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. — Voltaire

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. — Tom Stoppard

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

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

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 historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts. — Henry Adams

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

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored. — Mark Twain

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end. — J. B. Bury

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes. — David Frum

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay