Real History Quotes
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Real History Quotes & Sayings
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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.
— Auberon Waugh
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
— Robert Baldwin Ross
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The real history never makes the books;
— April White
I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
— Marie Brennan
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
— Honore De Balzac
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.
— Subhas Chandra Bose
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
— William Faulkner
Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.
— Rodney King
Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
— Alice Miller
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
— George R R Martin
History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner
— Kate Morton
Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today
— Mike Watt
Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
— Jean Genet
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
— Oscar Wilde
This was real. This was more real even than reality. This was history. It might not be true, but that had nothing to do with it.
— Terry Pratchett
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
— George S. Patton
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
— G. M. Trevelyan
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.
— Terence Winter
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
— Marie Brennan
If you want to know who the real heroes of world history are, just look at the mothers.
— Peter Hoeg
To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.
— Shogo Oketani
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
— Kate Mosse
Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.
— James Mattis
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
— James D'arcy
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
— Friedrich Engels
No one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.
— Paula Wall
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
— Joseph Brodsky
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.
— Fatema Mernissi
Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
— Patrick O'Brian
The real war will never get in the books.
— Walt Whitman
