Revising History Quotes

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.

We're not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more positive light than is true.

The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.