Biographies Quote by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to…

— Lucy Worsley

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and…

— Victor Hugo

“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and…

— Victor Hugo

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a…

— Nancy Milford

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

— Hugh Blair

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.…

— E. M. Forster