Contemporary Quote by Guy Debord

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

— Polybius

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

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

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research…

— Simon Schama

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

— Joseph Joubert