Country Quote by Francois Fenelon

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“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

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.…

— E. M. Forster

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and…

— Victor Hugo

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

— Tony Judt

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and…

— Victor Hugo

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

“No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time,…

— Anonymous

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

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