Causes Quote by Otto E. Neugebauer

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

— Leo Tolstoy

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

— Dean Kamen

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

— Keith Allen

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

— Hippolyte Taine

“Historians have often felt that the discovery of facts (even true ones) is only a preliminary to a higher activity, that of understanding the…

— Oswyn Murray

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

— Emile M. Cioran

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

— Leo Tolstoy

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell