Accomplished Quote by Carter G. Woodson

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records,…

— George F. Kennan

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own…

— James Lee Burke

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less,…

— Samuel Johnson

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at…

— Paul Bailey

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record…

— Samuel Smiles

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

— B. Traven

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

— E. Franklin Frazier

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the…

— Colum McCann