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 Alter Past God Alter Historians History Past Past Historians 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
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch 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
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to… — G. M. Trevelyan 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
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels 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
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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