[Assam] Quotes about History -and its fallibility etc

[umesh sharma]

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/history_is_written_by_the_victors/150112.html  “History is written by the victors.”  Winston Churchil
   
   
  http://hnn.us/articles/1328.html
            History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
Reinhold Niebuhr 
   
   
  History is a myth that men agree to believe.
Napoleon 
    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.
Lord Bolingbroke     History is the distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle     It is the essence of the poor that they do not appear in history.
Anonymous 
   
  I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history.
Gen. George Meade 
   
  "History" is a Greek word which means, literally, just "investigation."
Arnold Toynbee 
   
  Historians, it is said, fall into one of three categories:
Those who lie.
Those who are mistaken.
Those who do not know.
Anonymous 
   
  Happy people have no history.
Leo Tolstoy
   
  http://www.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?contributor=andhrapuli
   
  The past defines the present. 
The present defines the future.   If I were to change your history, will I then change your future?   We who are victors write history 
We who are victors teach history
We who are victors command your history   They the once victorious wrote us our history
They the once victorious taught us our history
They the once victorious are our victors no more.   Yet we abide by the history they wrote
The history they taught
The politics they played!   What would you say if I told you. there is no such race as the Aryans? 
Would it surprise you?
If there were no Aryans there couldn't have been an invasion, could there?
What did you study in school?
I studied. does it really matter?
Would you really want to know?
It might scare you!
It might be injurious to the way you think.


Umesh Sharma
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