Arrogance Quote by Victor Davis Hanson

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

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem…

— Paul Johnson

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago…

— Gustave Flaubert

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt

“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

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the…

— Colum McCann

“We live in this bubble of ignorance. Most people know nothing about history, or the historical context of the traditions they still follow today.…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

— Gustave Flaubert

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton