Capable Quote by Nikita Khrushchev

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

— Nikita Khrushchev

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

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

— R. A. Salvatore

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.

— Norman Davies

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

— Edward Gibbon

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

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

History is too important to be left to the historians.

— Robert Harris

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it…

— Michel de Montaigne

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

— Anonymous

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which…

— Douglas Hurd