Care Quote by Henry Adams

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a…

— Matthew Arnold

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not…

— Mark Twain

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts,…

— Howard Zinn

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles…

— Augustine Birrell

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of…

— Boyd K. Packer

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

— Marc Bloch

“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

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

— B. H. Liddell Hart