Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
Ah, history. The study of when the first source lied, the second one (who wrote it down) was as accurate as Braveheart, third one took the most exiting stuff as the truth and added some even better stuff, fourth took it as truth (lot's of history books are at this point btw), while the fifth and sixth tries to piece together what really happened using different methods (usually based on some kind aspected view of history). You can learn a lot from that can you?
There is a quote from one of the best (in my opinion) sci-fi shows that sums up History as a subject perfectly - (props to anyone who figures out which show )

“Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.”
When you are reading any historical text you are only getting the "their" side of what happened - and what you walk away with is "your" side - neither of these are necessarily the truth