Famous quotes by Historians

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young, it is a cry of hope"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"To a historian, libraries are food, shelter, and even muse"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic, or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Miracles happen to those who believe in them"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Great writers are the saints for the godless"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"One half who graduate from college never read another book"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation"

Miriam Beard, Historian

"Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else"

Miriam Beard, Historian

"It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks"

Miriam Beard, Historian

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