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Quotes about history, against biased lying historians (and about how people manipulate, hide or misinterpret HISTORY)

• "How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us'?
  Behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie." ― God; Jeremiah 8:8, ( The Bible)
• "Historians, it is said, fall into one of three categories: Those who lie. Those who are mistaken. Those who do not know." ― Anonymous
• "A historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.” ― Howard Zinn,
• “The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.” ― Colum McCann
• "The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation." ― John Hope Franklin
• “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” ― Napoleon
• “History is written by the winners.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
• “History is written by the victors.” ― Winston Churchill
• "History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth." ― Paul Murray,
• “Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.” ― H.L. Mencken
• "History would be a wonderful thing ― if it were only true. ― Leo Tolstoy
• "History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions." ― Voltaire
• "The historian amputates reality." ― Gaetano Salvemini
• “Half of writing history is hiding the truth” ― Joss Whedon
• "History is always a one-sided account.” ― Dan Brown
• "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art". Preface. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
• "No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error." ― W. C. Williams
• "No historian should be trusted implicitly." ― G. Kitson Clark
• "I often think it odd that it [history] should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention." ― Catherine Morland
• “Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” ― George Macaulay Trevelyan
• "History demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.” ― Jim Butcher
• "The history books, which had almost completely ignored the contribution of the Negro in American history, only served to intensify the Negroes' sense of worthlessness and to augment the anachronistic doctrine of white supremacy." ― Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
• “History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.” ― Esther M. Friesner
• "Ignorance is
• "People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them." ― James Baldwin
• "Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence." ― Goethe
• “If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.” ― Eugen Weber
• "HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools." — Ambrose Bierce
• "[History is] not factual at all, but a series of accepted judgments." ― Geoffrey Barraclough
• “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” ― Golda Meir
• If lions were historians, the tales of the jungle would not always favor the hunter" – African saying
• “Do you really believe... that everything historians tell us... is actually true?
  You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.” ― Moderata Fonte
• "The historians repeat one another." ― Max Beerbohm
• "Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and, What is imagination...? but the projection of the author's personality?." ― Pieter Geyl
• "Everyone falsifies history even if it is only his own personal history. Sometimes the falsification is deliberate, sometimes unconscious." ― Joseph Freeman
• "Historians are to be read with moderation and kindness, and it is to be remembered that they can not be in all circumstances." ― Cotton Mather
• "Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar." ― Jefferson Davis
• "If one has an exaggerated view of the past, then one is obviously going to have a diminished view of the present." ― Joseph Nye
• "History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in." ― O. W. Holmes, Jr.
• "History is the distillation of rumour." ― Thomas Carlyle
• “All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.” ― Selma Dabbagh
• "History is the invention of historians." ― (Attributed to Napoleon)
• "History has a way of censoring contemporary values." ― Anonymous
• "The past in the hands of historians is not what it was." ― Lynn White, Jr.
• "History is not history unless it is the truth." ―Abraham Lincoln
• "We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer." ― Reinhold Niebuhr
• "History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to Him as the law of life." ― Reinhold Niebuhr

Favorite Quotes

Sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction

— Karl Barth

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

—  Jesus Chirst

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