History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

This is what seems to me the grave, perhaps the gravest, evil of our time. For history is always somewhat false, and by its falsehood always somewhat warps judgment; but history written on the basis of deliberate falsehood and of repeated and prolonged suppression would be another matter altogether. It would not be history at all.
Now history is the memory of the race; and a man without memory is no longer a man.

History has no meaning.

Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccurate, beclouded by ambivalent evidence and biased historians, and perhaps distorted by our own patriotic or religious partisanship. “Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...

Where history means nothing. Lessons are forgotten. Memories – of humanity, of all that is humane – are lost.

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.