Famous quotes by Historians

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"Time makes heroes, but dissolves celebrities"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars"

Charles A. Beard, Historian

"Books are humanity in print"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living"

Miriam Beard, Historian

Miriam Beard

"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"The facts of life are very stubborn things"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew"

Eric Williams, Historian

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"A good lawyer is a bad Christian"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

Arnold J. Toynbee

"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Friends are born, not made"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"Reform, that we may preserve"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

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