Alexander-the-great Quote by Carl Sagan

Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, "by not waivering".

— Billy Graham

What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty…

— John Adams

“Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a…

— Andrew Chugg

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens.”

— Jack Weatherford

“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the…

— Plutarch

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

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

— Jon Turteltaub

“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Yet historians still start their books with a ritual lament about 'the sources' and their inadequacy. The lament is not entirely insincere (though it…

— Mary Beard

“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past, I'm in…

— Deborah Harkness