History Quote by Richard Dawkins

“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some…

— Norman Davies

“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.”

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“The people who criticize me are ignorant of what history is, because the very fact that the student of history chooses what to include…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.”

— Keith Jenkins

“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.”

— James Lee Burke

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda