Diversity Quote by Rebecca West

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human…

— Sorin Cerin

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

— Monica Lewinsky

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

— John Oliver Killens

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a…

— Matthew Arnold

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières