Famous quotes by Historians

"What we share with another ceases to be our own"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

"A good lawyer is a bad Christian"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops"

Henry Brooks Adams, Historian

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"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

"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

"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

"No war is inevitable until it breaks out"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

A. J. P. Taylor

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

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding"

Marc Bloch, Historian

Marc Bloch

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars"

Charles A. Beard, Historian

"Fear is the parent of cruelty"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Heroism is endurance for one moment more"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"I am convinced that we are in a terminal process"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

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