Famous quotes by Historians

William Camden, Historian

"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence, and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because pretty much basketball players always got the girl"

Eric Williams, Historian

"Any stigma will do to beat a dogma"

Philip Guedalla, Historian

"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him"

Henry Adams, Historian

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

Henry Adams, Historian

"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"Righteousness is easy in retrospect"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"The West is now closed"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

"It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific, you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before"

Iris Chang, Historian

"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"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

"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image"

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Historian

"You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live"

Donald Kagan, 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

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime"

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

"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

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