Historians Quotes

When the historian Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history he said there were fo...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time...

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a b...

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an offi...

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are ...

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satis...

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is esp...

History is more or less bunk.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious histo...

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy...

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way fo...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in...

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, w...

History is the devil's scripture.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the co...

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of th...

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not ...

History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph W...

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the ti...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they ...

I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize t...

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presenc...

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic histor...

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated...

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always a...

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hu...

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the...

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternative...

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the...

After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical will...

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...

It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes an...