History Wrong Quotes

#1. Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Ernest Renan

#2. History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Because we are imperfect souls, our knowledge is imperfect. The history of learning is an adventure in overcoming our errors. There is no sin in being wrong. The sin is in our unwillingness to examine our own beliefs, and in believing that our authorities cannot be wrong.

Neil Postman

#4. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Horatio Nelson

#6. I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates ... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

Clive James

#7. Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir ... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Elliott Erwitt

#8. Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

John A. Macdonald

#9. History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

Albert Pollard

#10. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

Arundhati Roy

#11. When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.

Os Guinness

#12. One of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

John Carey

#13. The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

Maureen Johnson

#14. In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong.

Richard Powers

#15. The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions.

Tim Weiner

#16. Yet the history of media shows that this is just the modern incarnation of the timeless complaint of the intellectual elite, every time technology makes publishing easier, that the wrong sort of people will use it to publish the wrong sorts of things.

Tom Standage

#17. Poor little lambs,' says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can't be named." Pastel Orphans

Gemma Liviero

#18. When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God.

Billy Graham

#19. There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

Paul Watson

#20. Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#21. Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

Peter Kreeft

#22. I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

Lord Acton

#23. 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

#24. You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

Kim Cattrall

#25. By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

Chris Crutcher

#26. If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Christine Keeler

#27. And so we learn how simple it is to change the history of the universe," Sorvalh said. "All you need is for every other thing to have gone so horribly wrong

John Scalzi

#28. If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Jeff Hawkins

#29. If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.

Leila Sales

#30. Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

John Wayne

#31. History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Lawrence Durrell

#32. History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

George Santayana

#33. Why is it anytime somethin's different, it's automatically wrong? That single principle has caused more suffering and tragedy than any other in the history of the world. Our actions make is good or evil, Ana. Nothin more. Nothin' less. (Grey Eyes, Forever Trilogy Part One)

Brandon Alston

#34. There was no right or wrong during war. The setting sun made me realize that the ones who would live to see a new day would be the ones who are victorious. As with all the history of this world, the ones who won were always right.

Shayne Colaco

#35. History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

George H. W. Bush

#36. The failure of churches to continue Jesus' struggle to overcome domination is one of the most damning apostasies in its history. With some thrilling exceptions, the churches of the world have never yet decided that domination is wrong.

Walter Wink

#37. Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.

William Winwood Reade

#38. Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history - and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

Billy Graham

#39. We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

Robert Reich

#40. When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs ... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

Condoleezza Rice

#41. Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

Arthur Koestler

#42. I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

Denis Leary

#43. The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

George Orwell

#44. It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Theodore Parker

#45. In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

Freeman Dyson

#46. Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Stockwell Day

#47. History has shown us that it's not religion that's the problem, but any system of thought that insists that one group of people are inviolably in the right, whereas the others are in the wrong and must somehow be punished.

Rod Liddle

#48. It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership
men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Harry S. Truman

#49. For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.

Nigel Hamilton

#50. History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

John Acton

#51. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Maureen Johnson

#52. When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

Diane Ravitch

#53. Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

Mo Ibrahim

#54. But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#55. So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

Ronnie Spector

#56. True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

Barack Obama

#57. He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!

Gottfried Benn

#58. 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

#59. It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

Matthew Stewart

#60. Because anyone who thinks there is something wrong with being gay is like those people you read about in History who believed it segregation.

Michael Barakiva

#61. History only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.

Janet Fitch

#62. History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

Steven J. Carroll

#63. I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

Oliver Stone

#64. Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Idries Shah

#65. Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Norman Mailer

#66. I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it.

Sambhav Ratnakar

#67. To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men

Fredrick Hatfield

#68. Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

David Icke

#69. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.

John Maynard Keynes

#70. 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

#71. When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Eugene V. Debs

#72. Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.

Zach Braff

#73. I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

Shakira

#74. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.

C.S. Lewis

#75. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.

Malcolm X

#76. When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

Scott Belsky

#77. You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933 ... Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

Charles Krauthammer

#78. If you think there's a thing - anything - women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.

Kameron Hurley

#79. Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.

Laurence Overmire

#80. It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#81. History does not end. It is a timeless repetition of human folly and correction. It follows that there is no single model of how to organise society. Who, barring those of religious faith, can say that view is wrong?

Edward Luce

#82. History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

#83. History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.
(Graukar)

Aleksandr Voinov

#84. History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Steven Novella

#85. History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong.

Richelle Mead

#86. I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.

Ben Quayle

#87. 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.

Diora Baird

#88. Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.

Rebecca Serle

#89. Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#90. The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

Emil Cioran

#91. The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

Robert Henri

#92. If you focus on the world's deficiencies and stop there, then you'll probably feel horrible and paralyzed. But why stop there? It's intellectually dishonest to focus on what's wrong with the world without acknowledging our rich history of overcoming incredible odds.

T.K. Coleman

#93. We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#94. If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt - above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

David Graeber

#95. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

Tony Blair

#96. time before history" is because it was an era that came and went without leaving a trace of itself. Since nothing went "wrong, " nobody had any reason to write anything down. It was lived, not recorded.

Mel Ziegler

#97. I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

#98. the only failure that cannot be excused is the failure to act on an injustice or to right a wrong. Those are the failures history shuns because the people who stand by and allow evil to occur are very nearly as bad as the evil-doers themselves." Archer

April White

#99. The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

William Mackergo Taylor

#100. History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

C.S. Lewis