Famous Quotes
59 Quotations with Historian.
- 1. Leo Tolstoy: Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has as ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip.
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 4. Herodotus: Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The ...
- 5. H. L. Mencken: Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- 6. Samuel Butler: The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact tha ...
- 7. Lee Simonson: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent ...
- 8. Lytton Strachey: The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about i ...
- 9. C. S. Lewis: No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines re ...
- 10. G. M. Trevelyan: The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest ...
- 11. Unknown: First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat ...
- 12. Propertius: Let's give the historians something to write about
- 13. E. H. Carr: The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate him ...
- 14. Samuel Eliot Morison: An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place a ...
- 15. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He consta ...
- 16. Mark Twain: A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth ...
- 17. Peter Burke: From time to time historians need to be shocked.
- 18. G. M. Trevelyan: Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. A ...
- 19. Lionel Trilling: Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for grante ...
- 20. William J. Durant: Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood f ...