Dry Quote by Anne Bronte

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the…

— Anne Brontë

“…the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had…

— André Gide

“All true histories contain instruction;”

— Emily Brontë

History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do…

— Janet Macunovich

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

— Charles Spurgeon

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

— Julian Barnes

“History is never something carved in stone, but more like something saved to a temporary cache file on a computer disk vulnerable to the…

— Anonymous

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

— Anatole France

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and…

— Thomas Carlyle

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his…

— Marc Bloch