A Quote by Kate Mosse

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Kate Mosse

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Kate Mosse
English - Novelist
Born: October 20, 1961

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Max Lerner

Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

Ken Cohen

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Neal Shusterman

History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.

David Hepworth

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Nick Bilton

We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.

Melanne Verveer

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Khalil Gibran

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

Kate Elliott

Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

George Orwell

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Carol Tavris

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

Joseph Hall

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

Kate Williams

I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible - love, truth, faith, honor.

Mark Parker

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