Affection Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“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

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

“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

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also…

— Walter Raleigh

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

— Nikita Khrushchev

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

The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig…

— Lucian

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

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.”

— J. Christopher Herold