Famous Historians Quotes
261 Historians quotes by 226 unique authors
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,…
— Unknown Author
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians
— Samuel Butler
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The simplest things to see are the things we are most blind to.
— Milliton MUNNEY
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Bitter people are like historians they cant forget the past.
— Missyrie
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Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
— Unknown Author
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I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition…
— Frederick Wiseman
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You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should…
— Dougray Scott
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The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
— Bill Nye
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Writers who have delved into human nature, ancient masters of strategy, historians of human stupidity and folly, kings and queens who have learned the hard…
— Robert Greene
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In ancient times, the historians took pride on themselves that they were lucky for getting the opportunity to write the history of India. While writing…
— Mak_786
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