Myles Munroe Quotes

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.

One has to confront history honestly.

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

There is no such thing as a final draft of history.

When you revise history, you lose it.

People are very resentful of elements in the history text books that are different from the history textbooks that they studied…. New knowledge has to be incorporated.

History is easy to change.

Learning from history is impossible if the narrative is wrong.

People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

I don't think you can erase history.

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

History is a picture gallery where there are few originals and many copies.

We often do not get the first draft of history right.

The thesis of the book in your hands is that Native American history merits more than 9 pages.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.

The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.