59 Quotations with Historian.
- 21. Victor Hugo: Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible wo ...
- 22. Miguel de Cervantes: For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neithe ...
- 23. Samuel Butler: God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
- 24. Samuel Johnson: Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical compositio ...
- 25. H. L. Mencken: Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
- 27. Simon Schama: Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ...
- 28. Johann Friedrich von Schiller: Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
- 29. E. J. Hobsbawm: Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addic ...
- 30. Sir Walter Raleigh: Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple tr ...
- 31. Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evol ...
- 32. Philip Guedalla: History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
- 33. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher: I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the ...
- 34. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as a ...
- 35. Simone Weil: If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European na ...
- 36. Mark Twain: In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is t ...
- 37. E. J. Hobsbawm: Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the p ...
- 38. Henry David Thoreau: Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they sw ...
- 39. Victor Hugo: One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some ...
- 40. Antoine Rivarol: Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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