Historians Quote by Eric Ives

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage…

— Eric Foner

“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see…

— Timothy Snyder

“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

— Timothy Snyder

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“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

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding…

— David Guterson

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can…

— Adi Da Samraj

“In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I…

— Veronica Roth

I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens…

— Takeshi Kitano

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society…

— Sam Keen