Written History Quotes
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History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
— Theodor Mommsen
...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
— Mario Puzo
I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.
— Santosh Kalwar
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
— H.A.L. Fisher
History is written by the victor.
— Guillermo Del Toro
History is not what happened but what is written down
— Kathleen McGowan
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
— Edna O'Brien
When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.
— Erma Bombeck
History is written by those who hang heroes.
— Robert The Bruce
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
— Jill Lepore
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
— Michel De Montaigne
It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.
— Cinda Williams Chima
History is a story written by the finger of God.
— C.S. Lewis
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
— Henry Adams
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
It would be written in the history books," Luci Baines Johnson said. "But now the history had to be made.
— Ari Berman
History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.
— Teresa Mummert
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
— Adam Hochschild
perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software.
— Andrew Hunt
History becomes fiction in the ... act of being written down
— Jack Kerouac
History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.
— Raymond E. Feist
I was looking for what rarely ends up on the page, because history is so much more than that which is written down.
— David Van Reybrouck
Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros pastdid and history have written their names in Gold — Ikechukwu Joseph
Happy is the day whose history is not written down.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
History should be written as philosophy.
— Voltaire
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.
— George Oppen
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
— George Bancroft
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.
— Juan Manuel Marquez
In order to be written into History; one must first change it.
— Darrius Garrett
As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told.
— Cinda Williams Chima
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
— Henry A. Kissinger
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
— Ray Stevenson
The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.
— J.S.B. Morse
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
— George Santayana
History is not written in the interests of morality.
— Agnes Repplier
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
— Elia Suleiman
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
— Abigail Scott Duniway
Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history,
— George Nethercutt
The written word is greatest sacred documentation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History is, as we know, written by the winners.
— Rachel Martin
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
— Lytton Strachey
Those are the bad guys, right?""Depends on who wins, I guess. — Shannon A. Thompson
History is written by the victors.
— Walter Benjamin
We understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
— Paulo Coelho
History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
— Tomichan Matheikal
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
— Allan Sherman
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.
— Harold Innis
People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.
— Colin Quinn
Historical gap is created due to missing written records.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For every written history, there is a silenced part of it, that is left to remain untold and undiscovered until history repeats itself.
— Joon Mier Da Mienta
History is written by people. People aren't always honest with others, or with themselves.
— Hilary Thompson
History is always written by winners.
— Amish Tripathi
This is history written in lightning.
— Woodrow Wilson
Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.
— Joanne Harris
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
— Spyridon Marinatos
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
— Harold S. Kushner
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I'm sure that not all Champions are serious all the time. It's just not stuff that gets written in the history scrolls, that's all.
— Tyrean Martinson
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
— Spencer Wells
For history is written by victors. They can write it however they want. The losers are always remembered the way the victors portray them.
— Amish Tripathi
A different kind of history from my mother's, the kind that is barely written down - that is felt.
— Zadie Smith
It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
— Idries Shah
Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
— Robert The Bruce
History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.
— Jeannette Walls
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
— Samuel Johnson
History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.
— Megan Smolenyak
History is written by the winners
— Daniel Handler