Take it with a pinch of salt: history

Galadriel (LOTR movie): History became legend, legend became myth.

History is a very difficult topic to cover in a nutshell. Everybody writes their own history - so you can say that history is just his story and usually the official history is written by the winners which doesn't mean the other versions are not true or do not exist. When losers become conquerors the history is re-written...

There is a nice quote from a character in a book called The Diviners: “Well, now, then, I read it all in a book somewheres, so help me, and it is all there in the books, but you don’t want to believe everything them books say, for the good Christ’s sake. We believe what we know.” (p. 67)

We had a quote in our textbook by Napoleon Bonaparte: "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." Which shows us that history is basically a story that people have agreed to be true.

And what do we learn from history? We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
So, take history with a pinch of salt and don't forget to use your own judgement in approching it.

By the way, every story becomes more credible when you use a lot of quotes, so here are some good quotation pages (feel free to add more pages in the comments).

Famous Quotes
Collected quotes
My own humble collection

ps. in writing out quotes from a book, remember to write down the book and the author as well :) Honestly, you will not remember them later.