Dare Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings…

— Pope Leo XIII

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is…

— Henry Adams

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

— Voltaire

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is…

— Barry Unsworth

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out…

— Howard Nemerov

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

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

“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

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