Famous quotes by Historians

"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances"

Herodotus, Historian

"There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob"

Herodotus, Historian

"Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty"

Herodotus, Historian

"One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end"

Herodotus, Historian

"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing"

Herodotus, Historian

"Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back"

Herodotus, Historian

"As the old saw says well, every end does not appear together with its beginning"

Herodotus, Historian

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

Herodotus, Historian

"When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers"

Herodotus, Historian

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

Herodotus, Historian

"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"In order to go on living, one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Page 7 of 46

See the complete list of historian people