Famous quotes by Historians

"We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans, but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions"

John Thorn, Historian

"Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects"

Sima Qian, Historian

"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near"

Will Durant, Historian

"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory"

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

"As soon as liberty is complete, it dies in anarchy"

Will Durant, Historian

"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn"

Will Durant, Historian

"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say"

Will Durant, Historian

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty"

Will Durant, Historian

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice"

Will Durant, Historian

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom"

Will Durant, Historian

"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men"

Lord Acton, Historian

"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It Is itself the highest political end"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Learn as much by writing as by reading"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity"

Lord Acton, Historian

"A wise person does at once what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times"

Lord Acton, Historian

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"History is a vision of God's creation on the move"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

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