Goodness Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not…

— Elizabeth Kostova

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity…

— Leo Tolstoy

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

— Samuel Johnson

“What are the qualities of human greatness that create history? Every time, if we think far enough, it is an ability to look through…

— Jane Adams

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

— Walter Savage Landor

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without…

— James W. Loewen

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

— Christopher Hitchens

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it…

— Michel de Montaigne

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

“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