Defects Quote by Herodotus

“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these…

— Mark Twain

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to…

— Jane Jacobs

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and…

— Thomas Carlyle

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

— Julian Barnes

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by…

— Frank Herbert

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“Many people believe that right and wrong are fixed absolutes. That is incorrect, they change over time. The job of the historian is primarily…

— Jo Nesbø

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.

— Norman Davies

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest…

— H. P. Lovecraft