Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would…

— Tacitus

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should…

— Anonymous

I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

— Arthur Koestler

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history…

— Robert E. Lee

The dignity of history.

— Henry Fielding

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“my desire to ascribe responsibility might be more a reflection of my own cast of mind than a fair analysis of what happened, like…

— Julian Barnes

To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high…

— Leopold von Ranke