Famous quotes by Historians

"History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all"

Fernand Braudel, Historian

Fernand Braudel

"Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands"

Robert Conquest, Historian

"For me, archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources"

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Historian

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Lord Acton, Historian

Lord Acton

"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul"

Lord Acton, Historian

Lord Acton

"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"He was as great as a man can be without morality"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"A friend in power is a friend lost"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

A. J. P. Taylor

"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

A. J. P. Taylor

"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways, equality and freedom of speech are a good thing"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing""

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The strong do what they have to do, and the weak accept what they have to accept"

Thucydides, Historian

"History is philosophy teaching by examples"

Thucydides, Historian

"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies"

Marc Bloch, Historian

Marc Bloch

"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

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