Famous quotes by Historians

"An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Temerity is not always successful"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence"

Titus Livius, Historian

"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted"

Titus Livius, Historian

"He will have true glory who despises it"

Titus Livius, Historian

"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war"

Titus Livius, Historian

"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others"

Titus Livius, Historian

"It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors"

Titus Livius, Historian

"From abundance springs satiety"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian"

George F. Kennan, Historian

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