Historians Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “God cannot alter the past, though historians can.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historians History Past Time
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what she called… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
