27 Quotations with Historians.
- 1. Leo Tolstoy: Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has as ...
- 2. Samuel Butler: The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact tha ...
- 3. Unknown: First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat ...
- 4. Propertius: Let's give the historians something to write about
- 5. Peter Burke: From time to time historians need to be shocked.
- 6. G. M. Trevelyan: Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. A ...
- 7. William J. Durant: Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood f ...
- 8. Miguel de Cervantes: For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neithe ...
- 9. Samuel Butler: God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
- 10. Simon Schama: Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ...
- 11. Johann Friedrich von Schiller: Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
- 12. E. J. Hobsbawm: Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addic ...
- 13. Sir Walter Raleigh: Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple tr ...
- 14. Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evol ...
- 15. Philip Guedalla: History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
- 16. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as a ...
- 17. Simone Weil: If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European na ...
- 18. Mark Twain: In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is t ...
- 19. E. J. Hobsbawm: Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the p ...
- 20. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographer, ...
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