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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
- Forster, Edward M.
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Best Quotes about History and historians

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However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Quennell, Peter

2.
Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

3.
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens

4.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

5.
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Raleigh, Sir Walter

6.
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.
Johnson, Samuel

7.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
Wells, H.G.

8.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Guedalla, Philip

9.
The Thames is liquid history.
Burns, John

10.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Cicero, Marcus T.

11.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Flaubert, Gustave

12.
Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
Mencken, H. L.

13.
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
Schama, Simon

14.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
Wells, H.G.

15.
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Gandhi, Mahatma

17.
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Conrad, Peter

18.
He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
Gladstone, William E.

19.
Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
Bierce, Ambrose

20.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Cervantes, Miguel De

21.
History is the distillation of rumor.
Carlyle, Thomas

22.
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Allen, Woody

23.
Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever.

24.
The history of mankind is his character.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Hegel, Friedrich

26.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
France, Anatole

27.
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Butler, Samuel

28.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Washington, George

29.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Mussolini, Benito

30.
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
Hugo, Victor

31.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.
History is a better guide than good intentions.
Kirkpatrick, Jeane

33.
History is the devil's scripture.
Byron, Lord

34.
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
Camus, Albert

35.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
Fiebig, Jim

36.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Hoffer, Eric

37.
Study men, not historians.
Truman, Harry S

38.
Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
Proverb, African

39.
While we read history we make history.
Curtis, George William

40.
History is one of the most remarkable things in our lives. The mere fact it occurred makes it remarkable.

41.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Wilde, Oscar

42.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Lamartine, Alphonse De

43.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
Voltaire

44.
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

45.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Dimnet, Ernest

46.
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
Burke, Edmund

47.
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
Byron, Lord

48.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
Carlyle, Thomas

49.
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
Hesse, Hermann

50.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
Forster, Edward M.


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