Historical Facts Quotes

#1. Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#2. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Karl Marx

#3. With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light.

Stuart Rojstaczer

#4. Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

Saul David

#5. The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

Hilary Mantel

#6. What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Thomas Carlyle

#7. These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

Aldous Huxley

#8. I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.

Immortal Technique

#9. In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

Ban Ki-moon

#11. Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

Max Weber

#12. I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.

Moshe Sharett

#13. Because you are the product of an educational system which recycles historical facts written by the victors whose perceptions are often skewed and self-serving.

Ednah Walters

#14. Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

John Stuart Mill

#15. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

David Friedrich Strauss

#16. I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

Gary Jennings

#17. Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

Rachel Kushner

#18. I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.

Shekhar Kapur

#19. If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#20. a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#21. What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Edward Hallett Carr

#22. There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

Chester Brown

#23. There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.

Kathy Acker

#24. I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#25. Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not ... to Bill O

Keith Olbermann

#26. 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

#27. All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.

Otto E. Neugebauer

#28. It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around ... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.

Barbara Tuchman

#29. The motives of the writer form as important an ingredient in the analysis or his history, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted.

Homer

#30. The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

Edwin Boring

#31. No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. I'm an author with a penchant for research. For me the part where I'm learning new facts comes before the story I weave
to make an entertaining read.

Marcia Fine

#33. This cannot be stated too strongly: From the very beginning, Christianity tied itself to history. The most important claims of Christianity are historical claims, and on the facts of history the Christian religion must stand or fall.

Kevin DeYoung

#34. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

Gary Wolf

#35. I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

#36. It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

H.G.Wells

#37. The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.

Robert Musil

#38. I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Ibrahim Babangida

#39. The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

Paul De Man

#40. Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

Charlie Campbell

#41. What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

Norman Cousins

#42. The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

Vladimir Lenin

#43. Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

Nick Murray

#44. A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

Julius Wellhausen

#45. I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Alison Weir

#46. Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove.

Cary Carson

#47. Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.

Edward Said

#48. Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction ... transcends the historical thriller.

Jeffery Deaver

#49. I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.

Sharon Kay Penman

#50. On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

William Monahan