History Quote by Voltaire

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

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work.…

— Rebecca West

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

— Walter Savage Landor

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.”

— A.H. Septimius

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

— Bertrand Russell

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

— Jim Bishop

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

— Karl Marx

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

— J. Frank Dobie

What man is, only his history tells.

— Wilhelm Dilthey