Creativity Quote by Mark Twain

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

— Herodotus

“in statesmanship, too great a preoccupation to avoid the errors of the past makes it likely that you will fall into the errors of…

— Hugh Brogan

“Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.”

— Adrien Rouquette

“For heroes do not make history—that is the historian’s job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions…

— Timothy Venning

“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

“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue…

— Francis Parkman

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

“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

Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events.…

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.”

— Keith Jenkins