Historian Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “History is the invention of historians.” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Innovation Inspirational Invention
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future. — Henry Clausen Copy Share Image
“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The historian will tell you what happened, the novelist will tell you what it felt like.” E.L. Doctorow” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
