Historians Quotes
Historians Quote of the day
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .
In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.
Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past also lets us look beyond the horizons of what is, to see what could be.
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.