Historians Quote by Arnold Toynbee Download Open image ““Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.”” — Arnold Toynbee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historians History
“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).” — Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari Copy Share Image
“Those who don’t know history may be bound to repeat it. But even people who know it may follow the same fate if they… — Yanko Tsvetkov Copy Share Image
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.” — James C. Malin Copy Share Image
I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the good old days (archaism),… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what she called… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
