Famous quotes by Historians

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"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

"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines"

Marc Bloch, Historian

Marc Bloch

"History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical"

Marc Bloch, Historian

Marc Bloch

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

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"A bad peace is even worse than war"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"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

"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"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

"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

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

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"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

"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law"

Alan Bullock, Historian

"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

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

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"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

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

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Expenditures rise to meet income"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

"Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it"

Thucydides, Historian

"The facts of life are very stubborn things"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence"

Charles A. Beard, Historian

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

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

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

Eric Williams, Historian

"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma"

Philip Guedalla, Historian

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