Famous quotes by Historians

"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage"

Christopher Lasch, 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

"A little man often cast a long shadow"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness"

Miriam Beard, Historian

"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous"

Henry Adams, Historian

"Time is the fairest and toughest judge"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

"The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms has but a fragment of the law of the moral world"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

"If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow, and where few will consent to believe he has been"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions we may respect the unity of history, which is also the unity of life"

Fernand Braudel, Historian

"In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"If there were a science of human beings, it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own"

Titus Livius, Historian

"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest"

Titus Livius, Historian

"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident"

Titus Livius, 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

"I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

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