Deeds Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“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

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

“for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“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

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.”

— Sebastien de Castell

“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.”

— Emile Habiby

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today.…

— Amin Maalouf

“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes…

— Charles Mackay

“We are surrounded by various histories and fragments from the ages. Some are true. Some are only the approximation of truth. Some truths are…

— Jeff Wheeler