Bores Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bores Duty Firsts Historian History Slander
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies... — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
