Accident Quote by Peter Conrad

“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act…

— Diane Ravitch

“it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains…

— Terry Nardin

“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

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

— Adolf von Harnack

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

— Cotton Mather

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

“For heroes do not make history—that is the historian’s job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

— Antony Beevor

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

— Lee Simonson

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

— Anonymous