Famous quotes by Historians

"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them"

Thucydides, Historian

"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger"

Thucydides, Historian

"The early bird catches the worm"

William Camden, Historian

"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"I can't take a well-tanned person seriously"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't--it just stops you from enjoying it"

Cleveland Amory, Historian

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"In our so-called democracy, we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"If Liberia has failed, then it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"The better one is morally, the less aware they are of their virtue"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

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