Top 100 History Is Written Quotes
#1. ...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
Mario Puzo
#2. History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself.
Sebastien De Castell
#3. The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
Alfred North Whitehead
#4. Islamic history is written in two types of ink. Black for the ink of the scholars and red for the blood of the martyrs!
Me
#5. When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.
William Howard Taft
#6. Sometimes people have too much history together, history of the wrong kind, and people cannot tear pages from the book of their life. Once something is written there it is permanent.
Ryan David Jahn
#7. Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.
Jack Gantos
#8. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.
Cathleen Schine
#9. History is full of lady engineers and spies and scientists. But history is also written by the victorious, and it may not surprise you that thus far the overwhelming winners have been straight white dudes. That hasn't worked out so well for everyone else.
Sam Maggs
#10. The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.
Rick Strassman
#11. History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.
Mario Van Peebles
#12. I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot.
Lev Grossman
#13. History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Dan Brown
#14. Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Dan Simmons
#15. History is, as we know, written by the winners.
Rachel Martin
#16. 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
#17. History is a story written by the finger of God.
C.S. Lewis
#18. There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged.
Howard Zinn
#19. There are no absolute truths, and the best historians know that. You strive to capture a moment of time, and if your work is done properly, history becomes a written photograph.
Gloria Naylor
#20. If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.
Eoin Colfer
#22. History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain.
"To Die for One's Country is Glorious," p. 131
Danilo Kis
#23. Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
Jill Lepore
#24. In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is the choice that loses. Ecclesiastical history, like any other, is written by the victors.
Eric A. Eliason
#25. One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.
Salman Rushdie
#28. The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization.
Fulton J. Sheen
#30. So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#31. The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
James Gleick
#32. I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this.
Josh Radnor
#33. A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.
Antonin Scalia
#34. History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.
Kate Mosse
#35. 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
#36. What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.
Frank Harris
#37. History is written by the victors
and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
Neal Shusterman
#38. The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman
#39. 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
#40. If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That's the way history is written
Eoin Colfer
#41. Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.
Gene Luen Yang
#43. When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
C.L.R. James
#44. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
#45. 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
#46. But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life
Percy Cerutty
#47. There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.
George W. Bush
#49. 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
#50. Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.
Ruth Behar
#51. The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it contains discrepancies, some non historical legends, and polemics.
Marvin Perry
#52. I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
Saul Williams
#53. When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.
Erma Bombeck
#54. You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.
George W. Bush
#55. You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".
John Hodgman
#56. We've been to secretive, perhaps. For long periods in our shared history, that was a necessity born from conflict. But it is not, I am prepared to accept, a style of living compatible with the modern age. It is difficult to maintain trust that way. Even among friends.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#57. In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah's history written in advance in story form.
Eli Of Kittim
#58. There is no need to rush in life. Just with one word at a time, your sweet life history will be written boldly in capitals and highlighted for easy access. Be sure you are passing the test of patience!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Edna O'Brien
#60. The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#61. Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kicked out of school I wouldn't be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.
Brian McKnight
#62. History is written by the victor, and if the elderly don't pass down their memories, eventually there won't be anyone else left alive who knows how the war was really fought.
Rachel Vincent
#63. History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.
Christopher Bram
#65. Megeara wants to find it. (Arik)
And people in hell want ice water. The entire history of mankind is written by people wanting something they can't have. (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. The computer on the desk of the student in school knows no history. It is not like a book, worn at the edges by human hands. No little child has written a note in it, long ago. It will not be passed down to the children of the children who use it. Its "meaning" is that there is no enduring meaning.
Anthony M. Esolen
#67. History is not written in the interests of morality.
Agnes Repplier
#68. Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl Jung
#69. It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
C.V. Wedgwood
#71. The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
Spencer Wells
#72. I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.
George W. Bush
#74. Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#76. 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
#77. It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
Karl Marx
#78. History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future
Morris L. West
#79. When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition.
Helen Sharman
#80. 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
#81. The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
David Gross
#82. A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.
Lana Del Rey
#83. History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
Samuel Johnson
#84. We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#85. History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
Theodor Mommsen
#86. History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#87. 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
#88. Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
Bella Bathurst
#89. History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#90. The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.
Franz Kafka
#91. No wonder oral history turns out to be more accurate than written history. The first is handed down from the many who were present. The second is written by the few who probably weren't.
Gloria Steinem
#92. In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#93. When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Nelson Mandela
#94. History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#96. For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
Stacy Schiff
#97. History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
Ray Stevenson
#98. History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
A.J.P. Taylor
#99. Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.
Henry David Thoreau
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