Bores Quote by Voltaire

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

— Antony Beevor

While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important…

— Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

— James Anthony Froude

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping…

— Steven Runciman

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

— Ambrose Bierce

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

— James Anthony Froude

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

— Jules Michelet

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to…

— Lucy Worsley