Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Other quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases. – William Stubbs

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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. – Martin Heidegger

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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. – Terry Eagleton

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It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. – Conrad Hall

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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape – into time. – A.L. Rowse, The Use of History

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