Bias in History Quotes

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

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

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

Again and again, the early historians of capitalism have—one can hardly use a milder word—falsified history.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

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

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.