Be a man Quote by Matthew Arnold

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

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

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“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

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 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

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

— Peter Morgan

“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

“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

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

— Samuel Johnson

“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian…

— Halldor Laxness