Terry Pratchett Quotes

History is always changing.

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

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

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Men live in history as never before …. we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

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

All historians are prisoners of their own experience. We bring to history the preconceptions of our personalities and our age.

No two historians offer precisely the same reading of an historical event; if we did, far fewer articles and books would be published.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.