We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility,… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the… — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech Copy Share Image
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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