Action Quote by Walter Raleigh

“there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.”

— Robert Graves

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a…

— Matthew Arnold

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

— Samuel Johnson

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them -…

— Rod Serling

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Walter Savage Landor

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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 men who make history have not time to write it.

— Klemens von Metternich

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